Re: No Serial Ports on Notebooks

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ah...my W98 (not se) machine is used to ram DoorKing and Compass.

RAM 2 adventure...when I had the dongle I couldn't find RAM 2 discs, then I
found the discs and couldn't find the freekin dongle. So...it's RAM and the
original Tecmar modem...until all my 6112s & 4112s die...which may take
another 20 years. Man them things are destructo-proof.




"Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Wow...what torture. I have Ram 2 running on a Pentium 3 laptop with
Win98se.
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| Jim Rojas
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| Crash Gordon wrote:
| > thats why i still have a 486 running dos...so i can still RAM old radx
| > stuff.
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| > "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:468af79a$0$20555$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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| > | "The Computer Dood" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > | news:ZLAii.470827$JN6.385673@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > |
| > | > I have had the same problem, but with Desktops.  You are correct,
that
| > | > the hardware emulation does not always do the trick...but what does
that
| > | > say for us hanging on to "OLD" software.  In my Software Engineering
| > | > classes, we talked about "Life Cycle" of software.  How long should
it
| > | > be maintained, and how long should it run before it is rightfully
| > | > retired.
| > |
| > | It's not a question of retiring, sometimes you have no choice
especially
| > | with discontinued panels like Linear CP-90's, AT&T and old Caddx
panels,
| > | that software is DOS only
| > |
| > |
| > | I guess the moral is that they built stuff too good back then.
| > | >   What is it you are using that uses DOS anymore?  I used to program
| > | > industrial devices with RS-232 controls, back in the early 1980's.
So
| > | > here we are 20 years later, still clinging to RS232 devices?  Now I
buy
| > | > networked (TCP/IP) devices.  The speed difference (156K vs 10Mb)
between
| > | > network devices and RS232 Serial is astronomical.  So what is it you
are
| > | > using DOS for????????????  It is not even "DOS" anymore, but the
command
| > | > shell.
| > |
| > | Security system technology still resides somewhere in the 80's
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