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 ...

They were invented in the 1960s and were the first universal, standardized way to connect devices. The "serial" part of the serial port's name describes how data is transmitted one bit at a time ...

[nickjohnson] sent in today’s hack. Mike removed the extraneous hardware, just leaving the UART on this IBM PCMCIA modem and replaced it with a SMD MAX241 ttl-rs232 converter. He added a new … ...

This seems like something of a throwback hack. [WilinNeofoxx] has built an audio modem interface for use with his Android phone.A program running on the Android device takes the accelerometer data ...

Serial ports are widely used by sensors for data acquisition, and they were standard on early computers for connecting a modem, mouse and other peripherals. Old Macs used the serial port for printers.

I need to do a serial port connection with a win98 or Xp Pro box. It is to connect to a Nortel Meridian phone system. My problem is that I cannot get the Serial COnnection on Com2 to come up as an ...