>By the way, most Dell notebooks have a built-in serial port. It was
>a big deal for me when I was shopping for a laptop last summer
>(I have a Dell Inspiron).

Not now they don't. They are steadily working towards "legacy free" and
having only USB ports. The number of laptop models with serial and parallel
ports is steadily dropping.

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