[H-GEN] Looking for an older laptop. Windows 95/98 era with a serial com port.

[Ewan Edwards]

Don't have a laptop, but do have a suggestion.

On Thursday 26 April 2007 14:23, Matthew Sellers wrote:
>
> If anyone has an old but working laptop with a serial com port
> lying around, could they please contact me if they would like to
> get rid of it. Needs to be able to run win 98 or 95, the software
> itself is not essential.

If you have a laptop with only USB ports, it may be worth trying one 
of those USB to serial converter cables.  Alternatively, one could 
buy a USB adaptor that has serial, parallel, and PS/2 ports.

I have successfully used a USB to parallel converter cable to connect 
a printer.

>
> For the curious: need to talk to an industrial relay with serial
> interface and obsolete software.

Where I work, we are about to have a similar problem.