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

[Matthew Sellers]

Ewan Edwards wrote:
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> Don't have a laptop, but do have a suggestion.
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> On Thursday 26 April 2007 14:23, Matthew Sellers wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> I have successfully used a USB to parallel converter cable to connect 
> a printer.
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Unfortunately the software requires an old version of windows to run. 
Things that normally work, such as VMWare and usb dongles don't seem to 
be doing so well this time.