That's why laptops with a true RS232 serial port are at a premium for certain applications.<BR><BR>There are *some* USB-Serial bridges that are better than others. Most only understand a subset of ...

And if you were to go back a few more years into the past, you’d have found when you bought a mouse with a PS/2 connector fitted, it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port.

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.

There is a gotcha lurking in wait for hackers who look at a piece of equipment, see a port labeled “Serial / RS-232”, and start to get ideas. The issue is the fact that the older the equipment ...

Software for Network access to PLCs PLC control software has no utility unless it can be used over a network. Serial to Ethernet Connector is a specialized application designed for remote access to ...

But the serial port is not dead. While RS-232 is mainly gone from the computer scene, it is still alive and well in industry. In fact, according to some, the RS-232 product business is still growing.

I program microcontrollers which require a terminal connection through RS-232. I currently use HyperTerm under Windows. I'm aware of USB to RS-232 serial adapters, but I was wondering which ...

This requirement was satisfied with a serial communication controller-transceiver, an octal buffer, and a two-line port (Rx and Tx for receiving and transmitting data), either in RS-232 or RS-485 ...

Electronic engineers, developers and hobbyists looking for a fully featured Arduino Mega compatible PLC may be interested in a new Indiegogo campaign launched today for a new development board ...

The award-winning Vision all-in-one PLC series welcomes its newest member—the Vision700. The V700 has an integrated wide 7” touchscreen (800 x 480)and was developed to answer the wide screen market ...