Yeah, I was surprised to find out a serial connector in my brand new (2015) motherboard. The previous motherboard I had didn't have headers for serial although

Yeah, I was surprised to find out a serial connector in my brand new (2015) motherboard. The previous motherboard I had didn't have headers for serial although there probably was one or more hidden on the board. You could plug in a VT10x or a similar dumb terminal in your brand new PC :)