Thank you Don and Bob. My poor old Toshiba notebook crapped out so I ordered an IBM small desktop with 2 serial ports and 8 usb ports dual core and all the goodies for under $300 from Tiger. Appreciate the info. 73, Dave In a message dated 3/12/2010 8:36:07 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
You can skip the middleman and go right to the source: http://www.ibm.com/products/specialoffers/us/en/icue.html I've bought a couple and the ones I received were like new. Keep watching the site as inventory changes rapidly. Sometimes there are even % off sales. 73, Bob K2TK On 3/12/2010 10:52 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > Those looking for a computer with a real serial port may want to > consider the IBM (Leveno) off-lease computers that are often offered by > TigerDirect www.tigerdirect.com. Many (even most) come with 2 serial > ports and are usually loaded with WinXP Pro. There are likely other > vendors of these off-lease machines, but I know TigerDirect frequently > has them available. Search the website for IBM off lease. Most are in > the 2 to 3 GHz range and usually with a Pentium 4 CPU. They are > inexpensive enough that you may want to consider one for a dedicated > computer for the hamshack. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > Alan Bloom wrote: > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
