Hello hard working (and hardly working) arsians: I am currently working in a lab where I have to interface up to 7 ion-gauges, which are RS-232 serial devices, with a single computer. Now obviously we ...

http://blog.fabulatech.com – Serial port virtualization has acquired a great demand on the software market. New virtual technologies have made a great step further ...

Without some good means of input and output, a computer makes a pretty good doorstop or boat anchor. Once we start plugging things into a computer, however, it can receive data and instructions, ...

The RS-232, or Recommended Standard 232, is a serial communication protocol introduced in 1960 by the now-defunct Electronic Industries Association (EIA). If you're of a certain age and grew up with ...

For years I have been wondering when Cisco would activate the USB ports on their devices. I have been hoping for all kinds of USB functionality to routers, switches, firewalls but Cisco has been slow ...

The first USB port hit the market in 1996, and the Universal Serial Bus quickly became the go-to port for connecting peripheral devices to computers. It remains a popular connection port today, with ...

USB adapters with ports for connections you haven't seen in years, like Micro-USB or Apple's Lightning cables, should probably find their way to the trash.

I have always wondered this. Anyone know? I know I utilize the serial port on my Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop to program robots. I am a freshman Computer Engineering Student, and many of the electronic ...