laptops with serial ports

[Alex Snow]

Actually I've found a bunch of dell laptops (most of the latitudes) 
that have serial ports so will probably go with one of those.
On Sun, Jul 
16, 2006 at 05:39:33PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> My comment about the sound card was more to do with using something like 
> GRML, where the CD contains sound drivers, speakup and software speech 
> components, so Alex would be able to install a distribution of linux using 
> software speech. Admittedly this is not quite as good as using a hardware 
> synth and speakup for install as it requires the system to boot without any 
> problems (at least problems that don't prevent it booting and don't affect 
> the sound card), before speech can be started. I would guess that it would 
> be easier to find a modern laptop that meets those requirements than the 
> requirement of a serial port (particularly considering his budget).
> 
> From
> Michael Whapples
> 
>  Laura Eaves writes:
> 
> > Doesn't the sound card require a driver? At what point is that loaded?  The 
> > serial port is probably not essential for any purpose other than boot time 
> > access, so for other peripherals a USB or pcmcia to serial adaptor is 
> > sufficient.
> > --le
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4 at msn.com>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:57 PM
> > Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
> > 
> > 
> > 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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