Serial console on a ThinkPad?

[Michael Enright]

At this regional, walk-in store in Southern California, you can get
the cards for under $40 each, so $225 total seems pretty high. In my
experience the cards come with cables.

http://pcclub.com/product_list.cfm?cat=Controller%20Cards&subcat1=Firewire

Prices at newegg.com seem to be similar but I don't have a nice
summary link for that.

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:25:47 -0400, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> wrote:
> On 16 Jul 2004 at 20:15, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:14:14AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > I had a look at this.  I have an overview of how to do it (manual
> > > pages dcons(4), dconschat(8) and possibly a few others linked from
> > > those).  But the problem is hardware.  None of my computers have
> > > firewire.  That means buying two firewire cards.  That's about $225
> > > minimum (including the taxes and the cable).
> >
> > I paid the equivalent of USB $20 for both my NEC-based PCI and CardBus
> > firewire cards... including cables, and taxes, here in .uk.
> 
> That's USD I think.  If I could get them at those prices, I'd buy
> them.  Used?  I must be looking in the wrong stores.
> 
> 
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