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Nick Markowitz

Jan 1, 1970
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Belkin sells a converter for around $30.00 and works well
 
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Mark Leuck

Jan 1, 1970
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G. Morgan said:
What's more fucked up is something I ran across today, a brand new HP
desktop with NO PS/2 keyboard and mouse inputs. This sucks because
often I use KVM swithes and we only stock PS/2 mice and keyboards.

Those are legacy ports and will not be on ANY laptop in the near future
 
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Crash Gordon

Jan 1, 1970
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usb to serial port adapters...20 bucks or so.


| Belkin sells a converter for around $30.00 and works well
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Don

Jan 1, 1970
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Russell Brill said:
DELL still makes laptops with Serial Ports.........
no they don't . I asked heir support poeple yesterday.
 
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Don

Jan 1, 1970
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Bob La Londe said:
The other option is get ahold of UsedLaptops.com and see if they still
have any of those old bullteproof Toshiba laptops.

yea, I have one of those old toshibas that works good butneed a newer
operatingsystem for some software. prob cheaper to upgrade to win 2000 than
get a new laptop, kinda wanted a new one. as slow a win98 is on that
tecra I wonder how win 2000 would run on it? hate to spend much on an old
used laptop upgrade.
 
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Matt Ion

Jan 1, 1970
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G. Morgan said:
What's more fucked up is something I ran across today, a brand new HP
desktop with NO PS/2 keyboard and mouse inputs. This sucks because
often I use KVM swithes and we only stock PS/2 mice and keyboards.

Try something like this: http://tinyurl.com/y8p5cd

I've run into a couple machines recently that the PS/2 ports have simply stopped
working on... these little gems have saved the day.
 
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Matt Ion

Jan 1, 1970
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Bob said:
The other option is get ahold of UsedLaptops.com and see if they still have
any of those old bullteproof Toshiba laptops.

I have an old Toshiba Satellite... Pentium 90... runs Windows 98SE quite nicely.
Has about a dozen serial ports! (Just kidding).
 
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SMS

Jan 1, 1970
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Don said:
http://www.targus.com/us/product_details.asp?sku=ACP50US

looks like one way to go to get a serial port on a new laptop. any others?

The Dell Latitude D620 still has a serial port, see
"http://www.dell.com/content/product...0?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~section=specs#tabtop"

however it lacks a parallel port (the D610 had both).

Also be careful that whatever laptop you buy still has a PC Card slot,
as many newer models have dropped this.

You may want to buy a CardBus serial port card as opposed to a USB
adapter. The CardBus card will work in more situations than a USB
adapter, depending on the program and the O/S.

I use the Startech CB2S650
("http://www.pagecomputers.com/store/...ategory_name=18g18c489s1968&product_id=293131").
 
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SMS

Jan 1, 1970
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Matt said:
I've run into a couple machines recently that the PS/2 ports have simply
stopped working on... these little gems have saved the day.

Often the picofuse on the +5V line will blow. It's replaceable if you're
good at soldering.
 
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SMS

Jan 1, 1970
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Don said:
yea, I have one of those old toshibas that works good butneed a newer
operatingsystem for some software. prob cheaper to upgrade to win 2000 than
get a new laptop, kinda wanted a new one. as slow a win98 is on that
tecra I wonder how win 2000 would run on it? hate to spend much on an old
used laptop upgrade.

One thing to consider, if you don't want to spend the $900 or so on a
Dell Latitude D620, is that there are a lot of D610 Latitudes on the
used market. They will come with the balance of the Dell three year
warranty, and you can transfer it on-line. I prefer the D610 over the
D620 because the D610 also has a parallel port, and it has the
non-widescreen.

I also use infrared, and many manufacturers have dropped IR support. I
was never a big Dell fan, but I bought the D610 in desperation, needing
a laptop with a serial port, parallel port, and IR, and not wanting
external junk hanging off. Also, I need to run Linux sometimes, and need
the serial and parallel ports to work, something that would be unlikely
to happen with a USB to serial port or USB to parallel port converter.
 
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SMS

Jan 1, 1970
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Mark said:
Those are legacy ports and will not be on ANY laptop in the near future

There is no requirement to remove them. Most manufacturers have removed
them from consumer level laptops in order to save money and space, but
on commercial laptops several manufacturers continue to offer legacy
ports, and will do so for the foreseeable future. Dell (d620), HP
(nc8430), Fujitsu (E8110), Toshiba (Tecra M5) are popular products for
business and commercial use where a serial port is still required, and
where a USB to Serial converter will often not work.
 
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Robert L Bass

Jan 1, 1970
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I didn't know that.

Or much of anything else, apparently.
 
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Petem

Jan 1, 1970
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Robert L Bass said:
Or much of anything else, apparently.

At least he can say that he doesn't know something..

that's a lot better then asking like a jerk that THINK he knows
everything...what was it? was it "bond".....LOL

even me I was able to recognized the Declaration of Independence....And I am
not an American...Geeeee
 
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Matt Ion

Jan 1, 1970
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SMS said:
Often the picofuse on the +5V line will blow. It's replaceable if you're
good at soldering.

There is that... but $25 for an adapter is a lot cheaper and easier than an hour
or more of my time to pull all the cards, remove the board, desolder one fuse,
find an appropriate replacement, solder it back in, and reassemble everything,
and pray that that was the actual fix :)
 
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