You just need the right USB adapters to make them work. One such adapter is the USB to serial converter, which is used for connecting various legacy devices to modern computers. The USB to ...

Male USB Type-A connectors have a plastic tab at the bottom, which means that the other side of the cable without the plastic is the one facing up.

The classic serial null-modem cable was, among other things ... [Nick Sayer] needed just such a tool, but one that would work in a modern USB environment. Enter the isolated USB null-modem.

We know, you’ve already got a USB to serial adapter. Probably several of them, in fact. But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t use one more — especially when it’s as as cleverly designed as ...

The group behind the USB standard has begun work on a ... it can be hard to tell which way is up. The Type-C connector will make Universal Serial Bus more like Apple's Lightning connector, which ...

A USB-C cable is a recent type of USB connector that's easier to use and more powerful than older USB types. USB-C cables can be used to quickly charge many popular devices, including the MacBook ...

Currently, I have 3 different USB>Serial cables; an IO Gear GUC232A, a Cables to Go (Prolific PL2302 chipset) and a older Radio Shack cable (with an older Prolific chipset). I have a line of ...

Someday we'll look back and laugh (or cry) at our early USB struggles ... why wasn't the Universal Serial Bus designed with a reversible connector from the outset? It is the most frustrating ...

Some of them are connected to native serial ports, and some have USB->RS232 adapters. I am communicating to them via the serial port interface and their /dev/ttyUSB* device nodes. I can also use ...