Cheap serial-to-USB adapters are invaluable for snooping debug ports or programming chips, and if you ask us, you can never have too many laying around the bench. [Quentin Bolsée] loves them so ...

There was a time when if you bought a USB mouse, in the box was also an ... it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port. Those mice from a decade or more ago would have ...

Also known as an RS-232 port, serial ports provide very slow speeds and have been superseded by USB on desktop computers. USB-to-serial adapters are available for old peripherals. DB (D-Sub ...

Serial cables are used for the serial transmission of data. They support communication standards such as RS232, RS422, and RS485, as well as Fibre Channel, IEEE 1394 or FireWire ® (Apple Computer, Inc ...