[OT] Looking for a notebook

William Hooper whooperhsd at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 19:43:54 UTC 2007


On 11/6/07, Joe Tseng <joe_tseng at hotmail.com> 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?

Some of Dell's Latitude line still have them.  I've got a D820 here
with one, I believe the D830 (current model) still has one.  According
to emperorlinux.com the D520 and D630 have them also.

-- 
William Hooper




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