Serial ports are still used a lot in industry, and these minis are very light....

That is also why you will see monitors in various places throughout plants with no computers hooked to them.

I have I7 notebooks with serial ports for communication, esata for lighting quick partition dumps (cloning modules, drives, etc).

They can also boot in XP, 7, and 10, simply because a lot of the programs have never been updated or are crazy expensive to update.

If you think hobby stuff is expensive, price programs like Rockwell Studio 5000 Professional, 9k outright or 3k a year, per computer....

And then you may have lots of other companies hardware, Allen Bradly, etc, that you need their programs as well....

Serial ports are not going anywhere, not for a very long time..... They make huge companies way to much money to go away.....

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