Re: Notebooks /w a serial port?

["Grant A. Kirkwood" <grant () tnarg org>]

Steve Gibbard said:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
> > IBM T and A series systems all have serial ports as far as I know. (I
> > have not seen T40, yet.)
>
> The Toshiba Satellite Pros have serial ports as well.  The lower end
> non-pro Satellite notebooks don't.
>
> I discovered while notebook shopping a couple months ago that asking
> about serial ports is a good way to get laughed at by computer sales
> people. "Don't you know serial is dead?" they kept asking.

Heh, I had the same response. Incidentally, I just purchased a Satellite
Pro (one of the new Centrino-stickered ones) and it does not have a serial
port. The previously-mentioned Keyspan USB-to-serial adapter works just
fine however.
Grant

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