[OT] Looking for a notebook

[Joe Tseng]

So far I've found the Toshiba Tecra A9-S9013X; everything else is available 
as refurbs.  I think we may need more than one serial port one day, but 
we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Haney" <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Looking for a notebook


> 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?