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John |
posted on 25th Mar 10 at 13:27 |
Latitude E5500 has a serial port, just seen that, not sure if it's on the USB bus or not though. | |
PhilC |
posted on 22nd Mar 10 at 23:26 |
Ah, the old laptop for the console port! | |
pow |
posted on 22nd Mar 10 at 22:40 |
So basically a built in USB > Serial adapter? Funky... | |
Richie |
posted on 22nd Mar 10 at 21:33 |
We've got brand new Toshiba Tecra's at work - all have serial ports however they are also on the USB bus ! | |
pow |
posted on 22nd Mar 10 at 20:41 |
You can adjust the baud rate of the USB > Serial adapters, I've found that they can work quite well when setup properly :) | |
John |
posted on 22nd Mar 10 at 20:36 |
There are loads of problems with usb-serial converters. | |
ed |
posted on 22nd Mar 10 at 20:30 |
I think you can adjust the baud rate of the USB adapter if you're having issues with clock speeds if you don't find any laptops with serial ports. | |
oceansoul |
posted on 22nd Mar 10 at 20:17 |
We have Allen Bradley PLC5's and Bristol Babcock 3330's from the early/mid 90's. As well as other bits of instrument/control kit and HMI's installed late 90's/early 2000. They dont work very well with the USB adaptors, something to do with the clock speed of the USB and computer not being in sync (might be bollox, but they dont work well). | |
ed |
posted on 22nd Mar 10 at 20:07 |
What's wrong with a serial port adapter? I've not had problems with them... | |
pow |
posted on 22nd Mar 10 at 20:04 |
Nope, I've never seen them. | |
oceansoul |
posted on 22nd Mar 10 at 19:34 |
Do any Modern laptops come with serial ports these days? All our laptops at work are old date Compaq and seriously need updating, but we NEED serial ports. Any out there. |