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Re: Notebooks /w a serial port?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Mar 21 16:48:41 2003

From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Drew Weaver" <drew.weaver@thenap.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:39:17 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> 
> 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?
> 
USB serials work. I also remember a vendor laughing me almost out of the room
when I suggested they put in USB console ports. (usb connectors which would 
emulate serial, or LAN if they would like to)

Pete


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