On 11/6/07, Joe Tseng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? >
Joe, My company buys Dell notebooks, and the last one I saw new in August still had the serial and parallel ports on it. I haven't used one of those ports myself in years, but it is there, probably because large organizations still have a small need. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
