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 ...

Keyspan will offer enhanced versions of their USB Serial and PDA adapters for Mac, Windows, and Linux systems at next week’s Linux World expo, Aug. 28-29, at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The ...

Joining Sealevel Systems’ SeaLink USB-to-serial product line are two desktop adapters: the SeaLink+4.SC and SeaLink+8.SC, offering four and eight serial ports, respectively. Each port is ...

I have a Palm, and I use it with a laptop that has no serial port. Now, I use the IR port to sync the data, but it is giving me all sorts of headaches lately. The craddle I have only has a serial ...

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 ...

While the average computer user likely hasn’t given much thought to the lowly serial port in decades, the same can’t be said for the hardware hacker. Cheap serial-to-USB adapters are invaluable for ...

Expanding the SeaLINK USB family, the SeaLINK+I.DIN (Item# 2113) and SeaLINK+2I.DIN (Item# 2213) optically isolated USB to RS-232/-422/-485 adapters offer one or two serial ports, respectively, and ...

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 ...

Keyspan has announced new versions of its USB PDA Adapter and its High Speed USB Serial Adapter. The company said that the devices are faster and have undergone a form factor change to make them more ...

Today, everything from your computer to your dryer has wireless communications built in, but devices weren’t always so unencumbered by wires. What to do when you have a legacy serial device, but no ...

A device that adds a serial port to a computer. It plugs into the USB port and contains one or more serial port sockets. See serial port. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...