[OT] Looking for a notebook

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:09 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:
> >  
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA)
> >>
> >>> I have a couple of very old notebooks that have 9-pin serial in
> > them.
> >>> Nothing within the last 5 years though.
> >> My DELL Latitude D810 has a serial port and it is only a year 
> >> or two old (I think)
> >>
> > 
> > I just took a look at a few ( 6=sew? ), all different brands and all
> > less than two years old.  They all had a 9 pin serial and a 25 pin
> > parallel.  And that doesn't take into account their docking stations.
> > One lucky bastard also has 4 USB ports!  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Well in my defence I meant that we had no laptops here with serial ports
> newer than 5 years old.  Not that there weren't any, just that we didn't
> have them.  Sorry for the confusion.
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there's still a demand for them because of various serial devices such
as routers/switches/etc. 

I would expect that this is a need that will continually be filled by
some for quite some time.

Craig