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RE: Hardware problem

Subject: RE: Hardware problem
From: Sweeting Paul <paul.sweeting@hyder.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:18:03
You could look at a sony vaio C1VE, It is a full size machine with a palmtop
size foot print.
128Mb ram, 12Gb disk and supplied with windows ME.
Its not big enough to incorporate an internal cdrom, and the screen is like
a full size screen thats been divided by 2 horizontally thus giving a
widescreen effect, while being able to view a document.
Linux kernels are available for vaio's with full device support, so thus can
be more reliable and configurable...
as you guessed I've been looking into this already!!

regards

        Paul Sweeting 

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-----Original Message-----
Subject: Hardware problem


Sorry to clutter the forum with this, but I am in a dead panic. 

All three ports on my airborne laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook,which drives the 
cockpit display), have stopped receiving. 
COM1 is the normal rear Canon socket, COM3 and 4 use a converter in the 
PCMCIA socket and have worked fine for a year or more..   
All report normal via Device Manager, ie."working properly", "no conflicts".

Baud rates are unchanged etc. Surely they don't multiplexe through a single 
UART !? 

Ideas welcome, (except 'buy another laptop').  Incidentally does no-one 
produce a palmtop which runs normal Windows ! 

G-EMIN 


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