[aprssig] Laptops with true Serial Port

[n6lrv at cox.net]

Bob,
your purchasing people must only be 'looking' and not 'asking'. Serial ports are still available on request from most major manufacturers of laptops including Dell, Panasonic, Motorola, HP, and many others but they must ASK for it specificially. Same thing goes for parallel ports.
Gary
---- Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote: 
> We need to purchase NEW laptops but have to have a serial port.
> 
> Our purchasing department says they cannot find any.  I know
> they are hard to find if at all.  Does anyone have any leads?
> Not Ebay, not used.  Must be in current production.
> 
> I have heard of many problems with USB to serial adapters, and
> want to avoid that.  We must have COM1 or COM2.
> 
> Bob, WB4APR
> 
> 
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