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Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Israel)
Fri Mar 21 16:40:11 2003

From: Dave Israel <davei@algx.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:36:46 -0500
To: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port? (Drew Weaver)
Reply-To: davei@algx.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



There are relatively cheap USB-to-serial devices.  That's worked
pretty well for me.

On 3/21/2003 at 16:46:51 -0500, Drew Weaver said:
> 
> 	Seems like these are all but extinct, but does anyone know of a
> 'new' notebook that has a serial port built onto it? I've found some that
> have port replicators, but that can be a pain when you need to serial into a
> router or some other device. What do you guys use?
> 
> -Drew

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Dave Israel
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