I have a bunch of serial devices that I need to communicate with. Some of them are connected to native serial ports, and some have USB->RS232 adapters. I am communicating to them via the serial ...

I recommend the StarTech 1-Port USB to RS232 DB9 Male to Male Serial Adapter Cable (ICUSB232V2). It has a 3 foot cable and uses the FTDI chipset.

And if you were to go back a few more years into the past, you’d have found when you bought a mouse with a PS/2 connector fitted, it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port.

For years now, we have been hearing about the benefits that legacy-free PCs are going to deliver. The average user wants less confusion in their PC as they try and connect additional new peripheral ...

Yeah, FTDI is awesome. Our products use a 2.5mm stereo mini jack for RS-232 output, and we have had to ship USB-serial adapters along with our 2.5mm-DB9 cable for the last few years.

Plug the USB-to-serial adapter into an open USB port on your computer. Insert your adapter's driver CD when you see a "Found New Hardware Wizard" window appear on your screen.

Before USB ports became standard on PCs, several devices connected through a serial port. They're obsolete in many ways, but they still see some use.

In “The serial port: it won’t go away,” I mentioned how engineers continue to use the serial port (RS-232, RS-422, RS-485), even though it’s not available on most new PCs.I also posted comments on the ...

USB has replaced almost everything else and granted it is much better. ... But the serial port is not dead. While RS-232 is mainly gone from the computer scene, ...