[vcf-midatlantic] So, we're going to need an office computer.

[Dean Notarnicola]

And a PCI serial port card with a gen-u-wine 16550 is about $25 on Amazon​

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Dave G4UGM via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> Bill,
>  Why "Good luck wth a serial port"? You can get new HP Business desktops
> with a serial port...
> ... some times its "optional" but they are about..
>
> HP
>
>
> http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/desktops/hp-prodesk-400-g3-microtower-pc-p-p0d98ut-aba--1
>
> Lenovo
>
>
> http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/desktops/thinkcentre/m-series-sff/m900-sff/#tab-features
>
> Dell
>
>
> http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/optiplex-xe2/pd?oc=soxem57p97&model_id=optiplex-xe2&l=en&s=bsd
>
> Dave Wade
> G4UGM
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-
> > bounces at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of William Dudley
> > via vcf-midatlantic
> > Sent: 05 February 2016 15:06
> > To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org
> >
> > Cc: William Dudley <wfdudley at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] So, we're going to need an office
> computer.
> >
> > Evan,
> >
> > Good luck on the serial port.
> >
> > More likely, get a serial to USB adapter and use that for your serial
> port
> > requirement.
> >
> > And why Winders at all?  Microsoft is shoving Win 10 down everybody's
> > throat, the maker of the FTDI driver for the usb to serial chip is
> screwing
> > around with the driver and breaking FTDI clone adapters.  What
> application
> > that runs only on Winders is driving this requirement?
> >
> > Bill Dudley
> >
> >
> >
> > > On 2/5/2016 12:26 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> > >
> > >> We're going to need a computer for the new museum's office/workbench
> > area.
> > >>
> > >> Requirements:
> > >>
> > >> 1. It must have a very small footprint. A full tower, anything
> > >> rack-mounted, servers, etc. are not suitable for our current
> situation.
> > >> Ideally a "mini" case (ha! a minicomputer...) would serve us well.
> > >>
> > >> 2. We don't need a laptop and would rather have a desktop anyhow, so
> > >> we can more easily upgrade it and avoid proprietary stuff.
> > >>
> > >> 3. Its motherboard should have a sufficient CPU and enough RAM
> > >> capacity to run a modern operating system.
> > >>
> > >> 4. Serial port. :)
> > >>
> > >> 5. We'll need this in the next few weeks.
> > >>
> > >> That's about it. I figure we can buy a cheap SSD, install Windows 7
> > >> SP1
> > >> -- which is the least-worst version of Windows -- and make it
> > >> dual-boot into Linux. I can do all of that myself, but it would
> > >> certainly save time if the system gets to us already configured this
> way.
> > >>
> > >> I have a spare USB keyboard/mouse to donate. VCF owns a few small-ish
> > >> square LCDs, but we could definitely use a donation of a modern
> > >> wide-screen LCD -- perhaps a 22-inch or around that size.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
>
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