[OT] Looking for a notebook
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Tue Nov 6 21:13:29 UTC 2007
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.
----
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
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