[Ham-Computers] Re New Computers And Lack Of Ports

[Karty, Steven]

Loren,

What consumer protection law requires that computers have serial ports?  Do
you suppose there's another consumer protection law that requires computers
to have ISA slots?  Are you suing the motherboard manufacturers who only
include PCI slots instead?  

Steven - N5SK

-----Original Message-----
From: Loren Moline WA7SKT [mailto:lmoline at hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 9:33 PM
To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Re New Computers And Lack Of Ports

I would say any computer you see  that doesnt have at least one serial port 
and one parallel port isnt worth buying because it isnt generic in nature. I

could be proprietary.

There are to many new computers out there to settle for anything less.

If computer manufacturers try and obsolete regular serial ports they may be 
in violation of consumer protection laws.

Loren