Since most of us are long past the days of hardware serial ports, the USB to serial adapter has become a mainstay on the hacker’s tool belt. While they’re cheap and convenient, USB to s… ...

Does anybody know if it's possible to use a USB-RS232 adapter on an iPhone? I know there are ssh clients, and various other console 'terminal emulation' type applications. The question is, can I ...

He wrote a short C program, SioFus (Simple Input Output from USB2SERIAL), that converts a simple USB to Serial Port Adapter into an I/O device with 4 inputs and 2 outputs.

I recently schmoozed my manager into approving a nice 15" Powerbook, and I'm finding I miss my serial ports. Does anybody have experience with a good USB serial adapter with OSX drivers? I'm ...

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 ...

Expanding the SeaLINK USB-to-serial product line, the SeaLINK+8/232.RJ and the SeaLINK+8.VC provide eight independent serial ports that appear as standard COM ports to the host computer, enabling ...

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.

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 ...

The serial ports on each adapter appear as standard COM ports to the host computer enabling compatibility with legacy software. All SeaLINK USB serial adapters use a state-machine architecture that ...