Ugh No Serial!

brian · 11-14-2007, 01:40 AM

[rant]ok here is a rant, who decided to take serial out of a laptop?????

and yet they STILL use them in a lot of products. What am i supposed to do???? bring a desktop with a battery backup, lcd, mouse and keyboard to hook it up? i mean come on it is all of like 10$ to add.
[/rant]

Ok my question. I have looked everywhere but cant find a laptop for my work that has serial. It needs to be a cheep o' computer (for the cheep labor worker

) but i need something kinda fast and serial port. Hope there is some

pc-tech · 11-14-2007, 02:15 AM

get an adapter from a radioshack

brian · 11-14-2007, 03:54 AM

yeah but then you have to cary it with you. and idn, i just like it to be built in (mostaly because i already lost 3 cables

)

11-14-2007, 01:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
brian Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: California Age: 16 Posts: 3,680	Ugh No Serial! [rant]ok here is a rant, who decided to take serial out of a laptop????? and yet they STILL use them in a lot of products. What am i supposed to do???? bring a desktop with a battery backup, lcd, mouse and keyboard to hook it up? i mean come on it is all of like 10$ to add. [/rant] Ok my question. I have looked everywhere but cant find a laptop for my work that has serial. It needs to be a cheep o' computer (for the cheep labor worker ) but i need something kinda fast and serial port. Hope there is some __________________ formerly brianmay27 Main laptop: hp dv9005us \| turion 64 X2 1.6 ghz \| 3 GB ram \| Vista ultimate \| 240 GB HD First build: pentium e2160 3.2 GHz \| gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L \| 2.5 GB ram \| 160GB HD If you can see this, you have WAY TOO much time on your hand. Or you're a mod going through my sig. But if you do, copy and past this in your sig.

11-14-2007, 03:54 AM	#3 (permalink)
brian Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: California Age: 16 Posts: 3,680	yeah but then you have to cary it with you. and idn, i just like it to be built in (mostaly because i already lost 3 cables ) __________________ formerly brianmay27 Main laptop: hp dv9005us \| turion 64 X2 1.6 ghz \| 3 GB ram \| Vista ultimate \| 240 GB HD First build: pentium e2160 3.2 GHz \| gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L \| 2.5 GB ram \| 160GB HD If you can see this, you have WAY TOO much time on your hand. Or you're a mod going through my sig. But if you do, copy and past this in your sig.

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11-14-2007, 02:15 AM	#2 (permalink)
pc-tech banned Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Berkley Ma Posts: 857	get an adapter from a radioshack