laptops with serial ports

[Adrian Beech]

G'day Alex,

You might be hard pressed to find a laptop nowadays with serial ports!  An
alternative option would be to use a USB to serial converter.  The main
question is, I guess, would Speakup be able to use a USB interface even
though the converter should by rights show up as a serial port?  I haven't
tried using USB to serial converters under any of the Linux flavors and
probably don't fully understand all the ins and outs, etc -- hence my point
here may be a mute one.

Cheers.
AB


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Alex Snow
Sent: Saturday, 15 July 2006 4:30 AM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports


Hi All,

Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit 
faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?  My 
main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to find 
something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.

-- 
MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of
careful development.
	-- dmeggins at aix1.uottawa.ca

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