If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...

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 ...

A circuit board that contains multiple serial ports for connection to modems and other serial devices. The serial port is used as an interface by many different kinds of sensors and data collection ...

With Linux and the serial port there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that Linux has great support for serial hardware of all sorts and a host of tools for accessing the serial ...

I have been working with computers since the late 70s, and that's not for boasting purposes, but to tell you where I come from. When I started, I was always told to NEVER plug/unplug the following ...

The USB port is something most of us take for granted. You plug in a phone, keyboard, or one of the many useful USB gadgets out there, and it just works. But not too long ago, this was basically ...

Most routers have a serial port used to connect to the serial port of your computer. Using Windows HyperTerminal, you can connect to the router and enter the commands necessary to set up the router on ...

We are now going to examine how to access your computer's serial ports. In order to do this, we need some sort of serial device to talk to. A serial port loopback plug is probably the simplest. These ...

For measurement applications that require several RS-232, RS-422, or RS-485 ports, use the SeaLINK-USB+8 family of converters from Sealevel Systems to connect up to eight serial ports to a PC through ...