The USB to serial adapter has a USB-A port on one end and a serial port on the other. The serial port is most commonly RS232, which is a standard that dates back to the 1960s.

While they’re cheap and convenient, USB to serial adapters aren’t always the easiest thing to use: there’s always the issue of what COM port Windows is calling your USB to serial adapter, or ...

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Serial ATA hard drive owners now no longer actually need a Serial ATA compatible computer to use their drives. Novac has introduced the “SATA HDD Connect Kit USB,” a cable for connecting naked ...

I use USB serial adapters all the time.<BR><BR>I have found that expensive models that try to do fancy things are actually worse. Even with the drivers in Windows.. they just are more complex and ...

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 ...

Before USB ports became standard on PCs, several devices connected through a serial port. They're obsolete in many ways, but they still see some use.

The USB to serial adapter has a USB-A port on one end and a serial port on the other. The serial port is most commonly RS232, which is a standard that dates back to the 1960s.