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Everyone thinks USB killed this 66-year-old PC port (but it secretly runs the modern world)

This 66-year-old precursor to USB refuses to become obsolete ...
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Here's What A Computer's Serial Port Was For (And Where It's Still Necessary)

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...
EDN

Serial Port Monitor – Eltima Software Review

If you are a software and hardware developer working with serial ports, you often need a reliable serial port monitor that allows you to capture, display, analyze, record, and replay all serial port ...
EDN

PC Serial Port IR Communication

The circuit is aimed to provide a method for receiving serial data on one pin and transmitting serial data on another with a modulation at the infrared detectors band pass frequency. A tiny 8-pin ...
Ars Technica

Sending data from a comm port to an txt file?

I have a PC with a hand scanner, what I'd like to do is scan a series of barcodes, say 100 or so, and have each value saved as a new line in a text file in windows xp. What is the easiest way to take ...
Hackaday

serial port

[Robert’s Retro] is one of those great YouTube channels that shows us the ins and outs of old and obscure computers. [Robert] likes going a step beyond the traditional teardown though, repairing and ...
PC Magazine

comm port

May refer to any serial communications port or specifically to the serial ports on a PC. See COM1. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.