On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:09 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > Michael.Coll-Barth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) > >> > >>> I have a couple of very old notebooks that have 9-pin serial in > > them. > >>> Nothing within the last 5 years though. > >> My DELL Latitude D810 has a serial port and it is only a year > >> or two old (I think) > >> > > > > I just took a look at a few ( 6=sew? ), all different brands and all > > less than two years old. They all had a 9 pin serial and a 25 pin > > parallel. And that doesn't take into account their docking stations. > > One lucky bastard also has 4 USB ports! > > > > > Well in my defence I meant that we had no laptops here with serial ports > newer than 5 years old. Not that there weren't any, just that we didn't > have them. Sorry for the confusion. ---- there's still a demand for them because of various serial devices such as routers/switches/etc. I would expect that this is a need that will continually be filled by some for quite some time. Craig
