I f 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 ...

The 9 pin _adapter_ was just for the electrical connection to the serial port. The mouse itself had the dual PS2 / Serial protocol built in. New USB mice likely won’t have PS2 or serial.

A serial port on a PC is a male 9-pin connector (DE-9 D-sub). Early PCs had two 9-pin connectors or one 9-pin and one 25-pin (DB-25). On a PC, serial ports are called "COM ports," identified as ...

Faced with a CNC that took instructions over serial port, and not wanting to deal with the cabling involved in a serial to USB adapter, [vahidyou] ...

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 ...

RS232 Interface Scavenges Energy For Connected Devices Aug. 18, 2010 A clever way to consolidate enough power from the TX data and handshake lines on an RS-232C port to run a small circuit.

Serial Port Monitor from Eltima. The Serial Port Monitor software tool from Eltima Software is, in fact, a professional port sniffer and analyzer system utility good for RS232/RS422/RS485 port ...

Bihl+Wiedemann has developed the AS-i 3.0 RS232 Master in Stainless Steel. It is available as a single Master with or without mini PLC AS-i Control. This device has been designed for all users who ...

How to Repair a Serial Port in Windows 7. Although serial port connections have been replaced by USB ports in most computers, older business equipment such as fax machines and printers may still ...

Also known as a COM or RS-232 port, a serial port is a rectangular connector with small pinholes arranged in rows, often surrounded by a metal casing with screws on either side to secure the ...

The simulation of a serial port in software in order to allow USB, Ethernet or some other input/output port to take its place. Virtual serial ports are necessary to enable an application that was ...