[nycbug-talk] Slightly OT but: Laptop with DB9 serial adapter?

Lawrence Teo lteo at lteo.net
Wed Sep 5 15:01:20 EDT 2012


On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 07:51:24PM +0100, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
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> On 5 Sep 2012, at 19:43, Josh Rivel <josh at rivels.org> wrote:
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> > Not too concerned about the specs, just needs to be somewhat decent
> > quality and have a good old fashioned serial connector on it.
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> If it doesn't have to be new then a second hand thinkpad should do the trick.

Right, I still use an old ThinkPad A22m from 2001, mainly because it has
a built-in serial port. :)

George's suggestion of distributing USB to DB9 cables everywhere might
be more practical though. :)

Lawrence



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