[56910] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III e)
Fri Mar 21 17:06:00 2003
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:50:44 -0500
From: "Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq." <bownes@web9.com>
To: davei@algx.net
Cc: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I've even had luck with them on on applications that are simply looking
to toggle the sense lines to control outside devices.
Bob
Dave Israel wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>
