This converter may help if just the serial port on a personal computer is free, whereas the printer needs a parallel (Centronics) port. It converts a serial 2400 baud signal into a parallel signal.

If your small business is typical, you want to get the longest lifespan possible from your tech investment, and therefore you may have an older dot-matrix or laser printer with a parallel port that ...

The HV509 is a 200V, 16-channel serial to parallel converter. The high voltage outputs and the backplane driver are designed to source and sink ±1.0mA. The high voltage outputs are controlled by a ...

After a youth spent playing with Amigas and getting into all sorts of trouble on the school computer network, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for hardware from the 80s and 90s. This extends ...

Reader EPooch needed a USB attached display for a future project. From initial research it seemed that most available solutions involved using a “usb to serial” adapter followed by a “serial to ...

I'd probably get a USB to serial (RS-232) adapter and then stick a serial to parallel adapter on the end of it. Long time ago I bought a USB to parallel port adapter cable to use with an old HP laser ...

Before 2000, desktop printers for business had one of two interfaces: serial and parallel. The type of interface dictated the type of cable you used to connect the printer to the PC and how fast the ...