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 ...

Since most of us are long past the days of hardware serial ports, the USB to serial adapter has become a mainstay on the hacker’s tool belt. While they’re cheap and convenient, USB to serial adapters ...

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 ...

The SeaLINK+8/232 RJ and the SeaLINK+8 VC USB-to-serial adapters offer eight independent serial ports, each of which appear as standard COM ports to the host computer. The devices connect RS-232 and ...

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 ...

Some software and specialty hardware requires you to use a traditional serial port. Serial ports have been around for decades and work by transferring one bit of data at a time at a relatively slow ...

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 ...