Re: Notebooks that still have legacy ports

SMS wrote:
Anyone know any current models, besides these, that still have serial and/parallel ports?

Well, gosh, if people continue to refer to them as "legacy" ports,
the PC manufacturer's may not realize that they will continue to be
important to some people!

Even if the USB to serial port converters do not always work well,
there are PCMCIA serial ports on all but the smallest laptops.

This all kind of cracks me up, everyone worrying about connecting
microcontrollers to PC's. The time connected to a PC should be
small shouldn't it, as in during development?

Aren't we designing standalone microcontroller based products that
get a program upload from a PC and work off by themselves most of
the time? Often using serial ports to talk to other industrial
devices?

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