Help with trying to hook up to the Court's realtime system.

[Julie Keeney]

  I'm trying to get realtime  feed from my computer to the judge's computer who uses West's Case Law Notebook and a 9-pin connection that I hook up to.  I have Digital Cat software and I have a Stenograph Diamante and a Smartwriter, and a Passport, but I don't trust the Passport.  I connect the Diamante with a usb from my computer to the back of the machine that has a wide phone connection type end on it.  Like an ethernet connection.  With the Smartwriter I use a serial to adapter to usb connection on my computer.  What I'm not sure about is what kind of connection cord I should use to go from my laptop to the judge's 9-pin connection.  Anyone have knowledge about that setup in particular?  I read somewhere that if you use two usb ports on the computer it will cause blue screen crashes.  Don't know if that's because of Digital Cat or if that's just what computers do, but I'd like to avoid that.  Some reporters look like they have two cords connected together and some don't.  Hoping to get this working by Tuesday.  

Thank you for reading.

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

I don't know if this is an option, but why don't you supply the judge a realtime feed on one of your own laptops that you know works?  I know nowadays, when I go to depositions and do realtime, I supply all the iPads for the realtime because I know they work every time and I don't have to be an IT person trying too figure out what's the issue with every attorney's laptop.  

Sounds like the judge is using an obsolete nine-pin connections that was used years and years ago.