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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Linux and the serial port there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that Linux has great support for serial hardware of all sorts and a host of tools for accessing the serial ...

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 ...

USB ports and cables have tons of potential capabilities, but making sense of them can be tricky if you don't know where to ...

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.