[CQ-Contest] Laptop and Contesting Software

[Zack Widup]

I've been looking for a new laptop (well, not necesarily NEW).  It's good 
to know the D620 has a serial port.  I looked at some of the refurb 
prices at the Dell site but didn't delve heavily into what features it had.

The cheapest one I saw yesterday at the Dell site was about $770.

By the way, we bought an Inspiron at work a few years ago.  I forget the 
model but it had a cartridge slot for either a CD drive or floppy drive. 
You couldn't use both at once.  It made for a real pain in the tuchis to 
try to install an operating system on it on an un-partitioned, 
unformatted hard drive.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Russell Hill wrote:

> BTW, the Dell refurb with XP which I bought on the Dell website DOES have a
> serial port, in addition to 4 USB ports.
>
> Rusty
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chet Moore" <ChetMoore at cox.net>
>
>
>> There is a chain store (the inkspot) that specializes in ink and toner
>> refills that has been selling DELL refurbs with warranty forabout $350
>> with
>> XP on them.
>> I suspect if you go to the DELL refurb website you will find them there as
>> well.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Chet N4FX
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Russell Hill" <rustyhill at earthlink.net>
>>
>>
>>> I recently bought a Dell refurb with XP, a Latitude D620, on their website
>>> and am delighted with it.  Warranty and everything.
>>>
>>> Folks in the business suggested this approach to me.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Rusty, na5tr
>>>