We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As technology has advanced, the types of ports on computers have also changed for the better. However, that doesn't mean devices with older ...

I am looking at getting a new laptop. I would like to get one with both a firewire and 9pin serial port. I use a laptop to talk to a variety of smart equipment through RS-232 and would like to know ...

Munich, Germany – The SeaLINK+4M.SC and SeaLINK+8M.SC offering four or eight serial ports that are software configurable for RS-232, RS-422, or RS-485, eliminating the need to open the enclosure to ...

i'm trying to buy a USB to RS-232 adapter for use with my M1 Mac Mini, but this is turning out to be a lot more complicated than i thought it would be. the most common devices seem to be based on ...

We know, you’ve already got a USB to serial adapter. Probably several of them, in fact. But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t use one more — especially when it’s as as cleverly designed as this one from ...

There is a gotcha lurking in wait for hackers who look at a piece of equipment, see a port labeled “Serial / RS-232”, and start to get ideas. The issue is the fact that the older the equipment, the ...

Over the last two weeks I published an article reference the USB to serial converter see Project Usb to serial converter http://edn.com/project/mark_harrington/usb-to ...