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 ...

ANSWER: The most obvious difference is size. The parallel port on the back of your computer is a 25-pin port, while the serial port has room for nine pins. But the real difference is in the way they ...

I ran into some hardware problems with installing Windows XP on an older machine (couldn't copy SHELL32.DLL - anyone knows specifically why this occurs, I'd love to hear it - the things I do know are ...

For PCI bus interfacing, the OX16PC1952 brings together a PCI interface, two high performance serial channels, and a parallel port in one compact, 128-pin TQFP package. This integrated bridge device ...

Based on the modern Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF) instead of the legacy NT4 driver model, thereby correctly reacting to Plug&Play events concerning serial/parallel ports. Compatible with 64-bit ...

Serial ports have been around since the earliest days of computing. Originally intended to connect devices like printers and modems to personal computers, they still exist today in some form or ...

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 ...