WTH! Serial Parallel Ultra Bay

[jronald]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ThinkPad-Serial ... 19e02528bd

I know they made it, had just never seen one!

Ron

[RealBlackStuff]

Other ones I've seen sell for around $100.-...

[JeffCullen]

Snatched by my boss for his Frankenpad!

[ilakast]

Some more in the UK http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271290977697
(not affiliated!)

[ajkula66]

I know they made it, had just never seen one!

FYI: there's a lot of hardware that refuses to play nice with non-native serial ports.

Likely the main reason why my employer - along with several other big customers that maintain the "must have a serial port" requirement - dropped ThinkPads while the brand was still owned by IBM...

[yak]

Are you saying the ultrabay adapter didn't provide native ports? No, those were native. Ultrabay in T60 had a special connector just for this adapter.

[ajkula66]

All I'm saying is that we couldn't get these to behave in the field like we needed them to and were not the only ones...

Obviously, YMMV.

EDIT:what IBM had delivered to us back in the day were R5* units with an adapter that looked like one in the pictures. I've never tried using a T6x machine in the field, since by the time they were released we were already issued ToughBooks...

[Medessec]

Holy....


...I want one.