I have the perfect laptop for you. Old toshiba pentium 75 or something like that. The serial port on that is so real and manly that it makes Chuck Norris cringe in fear. Ping me if you're interested.
On Jun 18, 2010 9:40 AM, "Michael Sokolov" <msoko...@ivan.harhan.org> wrote: Hello fellow LUGers, Would anyone here perchance have an old laptop (the older/crappier, the better) with a real serial port which they would be willing to sell or donate to my open source SDSL project? In connection with my current project of bringing up a Nokia D50 DSLAM in my SDSL test lab, I need to run a certain very evil piece of software that runs under a very evil OS. So evil that it needs to be completely and totally isolated from the rest of my network and computing environment, hence I want to run it on its own dedicated laptop that does nothing else. The serial port is the key thing it needs: I don't want to take my chances of trying to get that horrible SW to work with a USB-to-serial adapter. In all other ways the laptop can be as decrepit as possible: slow, tiny RAM, tiny HD, etc. Does NOT need to have Ethernet as I will never connect it to my network, and most certainly doesn't need to have WiFi or any other modern amenities. If someone can help me out with such a thing, I would be very grateful. MS _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
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