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From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:24:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <07ef01c6a85d$64a270b0$6501a8c0@Charmin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY103-DAV23B767D74941C6099CA838E6C0@phx.gbl>

Doesn't the sound card require a driver? At what point is that loaded?  The 
serial port is probably not essential for any purpose other than boot time 
access, so for other peripherals a USB or pcmcia to serial adaptor is 
sufficient.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4@msn.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports


What is the reason for serial port? If it is to be able to install linux
with speakup, then would it be possible to choose something with a suitable
sound card and use software speech in something like GRML. I think people
were saying in discussions about GRML that it is possible to install debian
from that, and it should most certainly be possible to install gentoo with
that (as I think all the install stuff is in the stage file that you
decompress to the hard disk and and the speech is provided by the linux CD).

As I remember last year when my old HP laptop got stolen, it was very hard
to find a replacement with a serial port (although I did find one at Dell,
the inspiron 510m (I think no longer in production)). Sorry I can't help too
much with that part, all the ones I can find seem out of your price limit
(evesham computers have one with a serial port, but approx 1200
www.evesham.com). May be one of these companies that can build laptops to
order could do something, but I think they will be too expensive if you need
to stick to that limit.

If you want the serial port for other things, then is there other solutions
with various adaptors from other ports suitable?

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:29 PM
Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports


> Hi All,
>
> Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit
> faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?  My
> main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to find
> something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.
>
> -- 
> MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
> of careful development.
> -- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
>
>
>

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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 ot: " Alex Snow
 ` Adrian Beech
   ` Alex Snow
     ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Debee Norling
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Steve Holmes
   ` Sean McMahon
 ` Glenn at home
 ` Michael Whapples
   ` Laura Eaves [this message]
     ` Michael Whapples
       ` Alex Snow
       ` Dart Vader
         ` Michael Whapples
           ` Dart Vader
             ` Michael Whapples
               ` Alex Snow
                 ` Michael Prokop
                 ` John Heim
                   ` Michael Prokop
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
 Laptops " Tom Moore
 ` Keith Watson
 ` Reinhard Stebner
   ` Tom Moore
     ` Laura Eaves
 ` Sean McMahon
 ` David Bruzos

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