-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a Dell C400 that has a 9 pin serial. In the past I have had laptops without serial. Using a USB dongle sucked, in fact some laptops did not provide enough power on the USB port while on battery power to make the USB dongle function. Further the USB dongle is yet another hunk of crap to carry around, and having had to work in cramped spaces, I found the dongle to be too much to deal with at times. For laptops without Serial ports, I have used the "Silicom PCMCIA RS-232 serial port Card" (http://www.silicom.co.il/srs.htm). I still keep one so I have have two serial ports on my current laptop. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE+e5cWYCZjVDyC1X4RAoL1AKDTejifjozmhH2nra4+IaK9BfMDjgCfUhCS 95XS7S0g9dWJ136zA2b3Ufk= =tjat -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----