[OT] Looking for a notebook

[Mark Haney]

Joe Tseng wrote:
> I've been asked to look for notebooks for my office that have built-in
> serial ports.  We've already used USB-to-serial adapters and port
> multipliers with mixed success; we are kind of leery of using PCMCIA
> serial ports.  And we'd like to use these notebooks on the go so docks
> are out of the question.  Can I get the big OEMs to sell me a few of
> these or am I out of luck with them?

Wow, with /serial/ ports?  Doh.  I don't know, I would suspect the
manufacturers don't make many with serial ports any more.  You might get
lucky.  My USB to Serial adapter works perfectly every time.  Are you
needing more than one serial port on the notebook?



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