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

[Matthew Sellers]

Stephen Thorne wrote:
> On 4/26/07, Matthew Sellers <msellers at bigpond.com> 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.
>>
>> For the curious: need to talk to an industrial relay with serial
>> interface and obsolete software.
>
> I'm curious if you could do basically the same thing with a mini-itx
> board and a cheap monitor? Or does the machine have to be portable?
>
Unfortunately yes, it does have to be portable.