Before 2000, desktop printers for business had one of two interfaces: serial and parallel. The type of interface dictated the type of cable you used to connect the printer to the PC and how fast the ...

A socket that connects to a serial interface (one bit following another over one line). Serial ports are widely used by sensors for data acquisition, and they were standard on early computers for ...

I know someone who needs to connect a modern USB printer into a some kind of industrial machinery that uses a DB15 (15 pin, D-Sub I take it?) on the factory floor. It would be nice if I could find a ...

What? I suppose that ADB is a serial interface, yes, but no one's really calling it a serial port. The traditional Mac serial ports were the modem and printer ports. I suppose they got rid of them ...

You can easily use a PC's printer port for serial-EEPROM programming. You can use a device-programmer circuit used to program the MicroWire serial EE-PROM 93CXX (Figure 1). The circuit is so simple ...