Before USB ports became standard on PCs, several devices connected through a serial port. They're obsolete in many ways, but ...

Microsoft just announced the new 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop. I have not seen either new Windows 11 ...

What to do when you have a legacy serial device, but no serial port on the computer you want to connect? [vahidyou] designed a wireless serial dongle to solve this conundrum. Faced with a CNC that ...

In days past that might have been a parallel or serial port. Today it’s almost always ... Now we don’t have to worry about our laptop frying when we’re blowing up wires.

The simulation of a serial port in software in order to allow USB, Ethernet or some other input/output port to take its place. Virtual serial ports are necessary to enable an application that was ...

Weighing well under five pounds with surprisingly typical dimensions for a laptop, the Psion MC-400 ... That said, it does have a serial port so if you happen to have an old MC-400 laying around ...