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 serial adapters ...

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 ...

Two new members join Sealevel Systems' SeaLink USB-to-serial product line, each offering eight independent serial ports for connecting RS-232 and RS-485 peripherals, such as bar-code scanners, ...

If you know where to go on the Internet, you can pick up an FTDI USB to Serial adapter for one dollar and sixty-seven cents, with free shipping worldwide. The chip on this board is an FTDI FT232RL, ...

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 ...

I am looking at getting a new laptop. I would like to get one with both a firewire and 9pin serial port. I use a laptop to talk to a variety of smart equipment through RS-232 and would like to know ...

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 ...

Some software and specialty hardware requires you to use a traditional serial port. Serial ports have been around for decades and work by transferring one bit of data at a time at a relatively slow ...

Keyspan has updated its Mac OS X driver for the USB to serial adapters. Version 1.2 of the USB software fixes issues with the Classic environment crashing when quitting and some glitches with Global ...

When it comes to server consoles, users have two major options, graphical or text. I personally prefer a serial console to a graphical one, and this preference isn't all rooted in snobbery. Serial ...