Re: PC components - check mobo has external serial port

At 08:52 PM 12/19/2005, you wrote:

>Apart from a modem, for what would you use a serial port these days?
>Yeah, if you need to do a network install, you do need one but like the
>floppy, the serial port seems to have reached its use by date.

Console access to networking devices (routers, switches, etc) in my 
case.  The serial port on my laptop has been used many times for this purpose.

Oh, and for radio interfaces... ;-)

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