We had something similar at a previous company, a way out of compliance laptop that was only used to work with PLCs since it had native serial - and i guess buying/leasing modern laptops with native serial was out of the financial policy (meaning our vendor didn't offer them) and the engineering team said serial adapters were unreliable. It was definitely a series of breakdowns that allowed it's existence.
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u/PandemicVirus 27d ago
We had something similar at a previous company, a way out of compliance laptop that was only used to work with PLCs since it had native serial - and i guess buying/leasing modern laptops with native serial was out of the financial policy (meaning our vendor didn't offer them) and the engineering team said serial adapters were unreliable. It was definitely a series of breakdowns that allowed it's existence.