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Re: Notebooks /w a serial port?

  • From: Steve Gibbard
  • Date: Fri Mar 21 19:44:57 2003

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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