Since most of us are long past the days of hardware serial ports, the USB to serial adapter has become a mainstay on the hacker’s tool belt. While they’re cheap and convenient, USB to serial adapters ...

Two new members join Sealevel Systems' SeaLink USB-to-serial product line, each offering eight independent serial ports for connecting RS-232 and RS-485 peripherals, such as bar-code scanners, ...

To say that the RTL-SDR project was revolutionary might be something of an understatement. Taking a cheap little USB gadget and using it as a Software Defined Radio (SDR) to explore the radio spectrum ...

Joining Sealevel Systems’ SeaLink USB-to-serial product line are two desktop adapters: the SeaLink+4.SC and SeaLink+8.SC, offering four and eight serial ports, respectively. Each port is ...

I have a number serial of devices I need to connect to a relatively modern computer with only 1 standard serial port. The obvious solution is to grab a couple of USB->serial adapters, which I did, ...

I am looking at getting a new laptop. I would like to get one with both a firewire and 9pin serial port. I use a laptop to talk to a variety of smart equipment through RS-232 and would like to know ...

The RS-422/485/530 adapter can be used to extend USB-enabled notebook PCs up to 5,000'. The adapters get their power from the USB cable, eliminating the need for wall power. The SeaLINK+232 is priced ...

Expanding the SeaLINK USB family, the SeaLINK+I.DIN (Item# 2113) and SeaLINK+2I.DIN (Item# 2213) optically isolated USB to RS-232/-422/-485 adapters offer one or two serial ports, respectively, and ...

When it comes to server consoles, users have two major options, graphical or text. I personally prefer a serial console to a graphical one, and this preference isn't all rooted in snobbery. Serial ...

Some software and specialty hardware requires you to use a traditional serial port. Serial ports have been around for decades and work by transferring one bit of data at a time at a relatively slow ...

Keyspan has updated its Mac OS X driver for the USB to serial adapters. Version 1.2 of the USB software fixes issues with the Classic environment crashing when quitting and some glitches with Global ...