[OT] Looking for a notebook
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Thu Nov 8 23:43:57 UTC 2007
Joe Tseng wrote:
> I've been asked to look for notebooks for my office that have built-in
> serial ports. We've already used USB-to-serial adapters and port
> multipliers with mixed success; we are kind of leery of using PCMCIA
> serial ports. And we'd like to use these notebooks on the go so docks
> are out of the question. Can I get the big OEMs to sell me a few of
> these or am I out of luck with them?
The ASUS have/had them recently, I have a few here. Beware the USB
stuff, in general they aren't really RS-232 compliant, the standard
calls for +/-12v signalling, and many "serial ports" try to fake it with
0-12v, which really, really, doesn't make it talking to some devices.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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