The Story of Serial and Parallel Ports: The Ancestors of USB Before the universal USB ports we all know today, computers spoke through more primitive—but fascinating—channels: serial and parallel ...

I have been working with computers since the late 70s, and that's not for boasting purposes, but to tell you where I come from. When I started, I was always told to NEVER plug/unplug the following ...

Getting data to a storage medium requires transmission. Parallel transmission has historically been the preferred way to write data to disk. But at current speeds, serial transmission can be faster ...

Anyone know? I wanted to get something semi-rugged for a friends CNC setup, or at least something that's easy to get a skin for the keyboard. Thinkpad stuff is usually easier to find. I suppose a ...

While the average computer user likely hasn’t given much thought to the lowly serial port in decades, the same can’t be said for the hardware hacker. Cheap serial-to-USB adapters are invaluable for ...

Abstract: Using redundancy at the transistor level provides optimal power consumption compared to bulk redundancy. However, due to design limitations, it is not always used in its pure form. A ...

You all know that there are a number of serial ports in your personal computer. The serial ports act as interface which allows transfer of information between the computers. The first serial port is ...

This Microsoft Windows program displays the installed serial ports along with a summary of status (Available, In Use, Error). The program enumerates the serial ports on start and when a USB device ...