laptops with serial ports

[Michael Whapples]

What is the reason for serial port? If it is to be able to install linux 
with speakup, then would it be possible to choose something with a suitable 
sound card and use software speech in something like GRML. I think people 
were saying in discussions about GRML that it is possible to install debian 
from that, and it should most certainly be possible to install gentoo with 
that (as I think all the install stuff is in the stage file that you 
decompress to the hard disk and and the speech is provided by the linux CD).

As I remember last year when my old HP laptop got stolen, it was very hard 
to find a replacement with a serial port (although I did find one at Dell, 
the inspiron 510m (I think no longer in production)). Sorry I can't help too 
much with that part, all the ones I can find seem out of your price limit 
(evesham computers have one with a serial port, but approx 1200 
www.evesham.com). May be one of these companies that can build laptops to 
order could do something, but I think they will be too expensive if you need 
to stick to that limit.

If you want the serial port for other things, then is there other solutions 
with various adaptors from other ports suitable?

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:29 PM
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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