richs2891

Anyone know of a current laptop that has a serial port.
Not bothered what make but it must have a serial port, USB serial emulators do not work with the software.

Cheers

Richard

greyarea

Work just bought a Dell lattitude laptop that has a serial port. The port is listed in the technical specifications on the Dell web pages, so it is easy to check.

James

ChrisB

I had a similar search a while back for laptops. They had to have a serial port (some of the PBX programming software we use doesn't like the USB emulators) and XP Pro.

I ended up going for Fujitsu-Siemens. Went for C Series for our engineers and a nice E8010 for me - both have a physical serial port.

Stueyb

A lot of the tosh T series have them as well and are nice notebooks.

richs2891

Cheers for those, Having a lot at them now, Any ideas on which of the Tosh range (Tecra??) has serial

Richard

Tandy

HP do several I think one is the NC 0r NX6120

Proby521

iTrader: (1)

Hi,
We have some probs at work, my laptop has an old school serial port, and works fine, but another guy has no serial port,but you cannot use a serial emulator to fire a HEX program file into a piece of equipment, it wont have it. I found that using a Belkin hub, that splits from USB to a small box, with PS2 and a 9-pin serial port on it will work. This device works with no problems If you need any more info I can find out some exact Belkin number if any use to you. I thought this info may be of use, unless you have already ordered a new laptop!

Chris

thundertiger

i think i have a spare usb to serial adaptor, if you want to try it out...

BB