RE: Sony Vaio Specs

["Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Phil,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Harris
> 
> Nope ...
> 
> You will not get a dongle or port replicator or anything like 
> that, you will also not get a floppy drive nor a CD ROM 
> drive. These are Sony VAIOs where they make you buy almost 
> everything as extras!

Ahh, just like BMW then ;-)
I had realised I wouldn't get a CD or floppy, or even a port replicator,
but
I thought it was odd there was no mention of serial / parallel
interfaces.

> I had an earlier PCG-C1F so I do know what you get in the 
> kit, if you want to add a USB parallel and serial port then 
> you can do but you'll need to buy it seperately. For getting 
> drivers on and off the unit I would use an IBM microdrive in 
> a PCMCIA convertor, once you have your network card drivers 
> installed it's then easy to use a shared CD ROM drive from 
> another machine.

Thanks for the pointers, still trying to get to grips with this :-)

> For installing a replacement OS you will need the correct 
> Sony CD ROM drive ... The unit will only boot from the Sony 
> drive ... Not from any other make of PCMCIA CD ROM. 

Interesting, I wonder why ? other than to boost Sony's sales
presumably.

I believe 
> the same applies to USB floppy drives too but I can't be 100% 
> sure on that as my C1F was supplied with a USB floppy (I 
> don't think the C1VE was supplied with the floppy drive as
standard).
>
> Phil
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)
> > 
> > Chris,
> > 
> > Thanks, so you're saying that a "dongle" should be
supplied 
> > with the Vaio (or would need to get one) that plugs into the 
> > USB port and then provides me with "normal" serial
& 
> parallel ports ?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Tim H.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Chris Bond
> > > 
> > > 
> > > USB Socket :)  Usually they have a port replication
included
> > > that has serial
> > > and parallell on
> > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)"
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Does anyone know if these have serial & parallel
ports ? 
> > There's no
> > > mention
> > > > of these on the spec sheets from the Sony or Expansys
> > sites. If they
> > > don't,
> > > > how do you connect to a printer for eg (LAN card
perhaps ?)
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Tim H.
> > > >

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