[56929] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Notebooks /w a serial port?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Gibbard)
Fri Mar 21 19:44:20 2003
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:52:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Gibbard <scg@gibbard.org>
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc: Todd Mitchell - lists <lists@ciphin.com>,
"'Drew Weaver'" <drew.weaver@thenap.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030321214601.B02B85D07@ptavv.es.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> IBM T and A series systems all have serial ports as far as I know. (I
> have not seen T40, yet.)
The Toshiba Satellite Pros have serial ports as well. The lower end
non-pro Satellite notebooks don't.
I discovered while notebook shopping a couple months ago that asking about
serial ports is a good way to get laughed at by computer sales people.
"Don't you know serial is dead?" they kept asking.
-Steve
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