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Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Fri Mar 21 16:59:51 2003

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:40:17 -0800
From: Roy <garlic@garlic.com>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>,
	"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Serial ports that plug into USB seem to be fairly cheap

Larry Rosenman wrote:

> --On Friday, March 21, 2003 16:46:51 -0500 Drew Weaver
> <drew.weaver@thenap.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >       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?
> Socketcomm has a PCMCIA serial port card.
>
> Not cheap.  If you hear of something else, Please let me know.
>
> LER
>
> >
> > -Drew
> >
>
> --
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