[Ti] Ports

[Gary Wall]

on 1/17/03 2:39 PM, Steve Wozniak at steve at woz.org wrote:
I use my old Compaq laptop for that.
Switcher. Proud to own a Mac.
Gary



> At 1:23 PM -0600 2003.01.17, PRC-2000 wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to see Apple put a serial port back on the new PowerBooks (by end
>> of 3rd quarter this year).  That way I could hook directly up to my routers,
>> switches etc. with the console cable. Right now, having to connect with a
>> USB to serial adapter then the DIN8 to DB9 adapter to the console cable is
>> really a joke.
> 
> I keep a PowerBook 1400 around for that. You might look into a used PowerBook
> at a low cost as an option for this task.