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RE: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Weaver)
Fri Mar 21 16:45:11 2003
From: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
To: "'davei@algx.net'" <davei@algx.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:57:22 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Ok, USB > serial it is, I've gotten about 30 suggestions ;-) thanks
-Drew
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Israel [mailto:davei@algx.net]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 4:37 PM
To: Drew Weaver
Cc: 'nanog@merit.edu'
Subject: Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?
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
Senior Manager, Backbone Eng
Allegiance Telecom
