
A couple of things that come from all this trial and error is that, hopefully, fellow LEC-ers won't need to duplicate all this stuff - unless they really want to

We can still get our 'fix'

Edit: another option I'm going explore is a usb2/usb3 converter -> serial port since my old laptop has one of these as well as usb2 and usb3. But are the latest l/tops being sold with serial ports, now, or will 'progress' take this option out of contention? Let's hope that whatever takes their place is better backward-compatible than usb3 and that there's lots of better info available.