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Re: No serial ports

Subject: Re: No serial ports
From: "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 23:24:13 -0500
Newsgroups: alt.security.alarms
References: <TrVZf.2312$iU2.2164@fed1read01> <f9YZf.4318$sh3.318080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <ySj_f.9395$%m4.5323@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

"Allan Waghalter" <awaghalter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ySj_f.9395$%m4.5323@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> While shopping for a new laptop in December, I too noticed that most of
them
> did not have a serial port.  I did buy a Dell Latitude D510 for a good
price
> and it has a serial port!  Its very light compared to my older Dell
Inspiron
> 7500.  Works great!  Its hard to beat a Dell.  Been using them for years.
> Good box with superb customer and technical support behind them.
> Regards,
> Allan

The reason you won't see those ports is due to the Intel and MS standards
which consider printer and serial ports "legacy devices" and obsolete.

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