How reliable are usb to serial adapters? A friend does high end home theatre installation, and is looking to buy a new laptop. He needs to interact with a myriad of apps that use the serial port to ...

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 ...

Rugged self-powered unit brings USB to legacy devices and laptops The self-powered USB-COMi USB serial-port adapter can add an RS-422/485 Windows Serial Com port to a PC using the existing USB ...

[Felipe Navarro] wanted to add a few serial ports to his computer, but couldn’t find an adapter that suited his needs. So, he built his own. His Quad Serial device is a nicely designed converter that ...

Prolific PL2303 is a USB-to-Serial adapter cable that lets you connect your computer to the devices with serial ports, like a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller). When you connect a device with your ...

There was a time when computers had parallel ports. For the hacker types, this meant an eight bit data port, and nine additional pins which could be interfaced with the real world via the 25 pin ...

Many laser printers last for years, so businesses often keep older laser printers around even after upgrading other hardware. Many older laser printers use a parallel port interface rather than the ...

What's a good brand to go with? I know there are some that are queer and use special drivers - i'm looking for something that I can just plug in and it will show up to XP like any other COM port, so I ...