RE: Sony Vaio Specs

["Phillip Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

Nope ...

You will not get a dongle or port replicator or anything like that, you
will
also not get a floppy drive nor a CD ROM drive. These are Sony VAIOs
where
they make you buy almost everything as extras!

I had an earlier PCG-C1F so I do know what you get in the kit, if you
want
to add a USB parallel and serial port then you can do but you'll need to
buy
it seperately. For getting drivers on and off the unit I would use an
IBM
microdrive in a PCMCIA convertor, once you have your network card
drivers
installed it's then easy to use a shared CD ROM drive from another
machine.

For installing a replacement OS you will need the correct Sony CD ROM
drive
... The unit will only boot from the Sony drive ... Not from any other
make
of PCMCIA CD ROM. I believe the same applies to USB floppy drives too but
I
can't be 100% sure on that as my C1F was supplied with a USB floppy (I
don't
think the C1VE was supplied with the floppy drive as standard).

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG) [mailto:haweste@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 29 July 2002 08:56
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Sony Vaio Specs
> 
> 
> Chris,
> 
> Thanks, so you're saying that a "dongle" should be supplied
> with the Vaio (or would need to get one) that plugs into the 
> USB port and then provides me with "normal" serial &
parallel ports ?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tim H.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Bond
> > 
> > 
> > USB Socket :)  Usually they have a port replication
included
> > that has serial
> > and parallell on
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)"
> > 
> > 
> > > Does anyone know if these have serial & parallel ports ?
> There's no
> > mention
> > > of these on the spec sheets from the Sony or Expansys 
> sites. If they
> > don't,
> > > how do you connect to a printer for eg (LAN card perhaps
?)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Tim H.
> > >
> 
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