laptops with serial ports

[Sean McMahon]

last year I got a del enspiron 600M with a cerial port.  If you google there 
notes on how to get this laptop to work with linux.  That moddle last year sold 
for 1300 however.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adrian Beech" <a.beech at bigpond.net.au>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:21 PM
Subject: RE: laptops with serial ports


> 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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