Re: Notebooks that still have legacy ports

On Jan 30, 6:42 pm, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Also, a lot of lab equipment, industrial control gear and other stuff
has RS232 only. In those markets it is not customary to chuck everything
after 5 years because that's considered too old. They use stuff for
decades. Heck, even the old Dolch logic analyzer here in the lab is

Yeah, well, even having the right port isn't always enough :( I was
chugging along happily with my HP 54645D scope at work. Serial port
interface, of course. Unfortunately, the interface software is written
as an ActiveX control that lives inside MS-Office (STUPID F#$ING
SYSTEM). IT kindly updated my system (without my knowledge, desire or
permission) to Office 2003. Instantly I cannot access the scope.

Engineernig machines should NOT BE SUBJECT to company IT policies
about software updates, unified OS loads, etc.

.

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