Before 2000, desktop printers for business had one of two interfaces: serial and parallel. The type of interface dictated the type of cable you used to connect the printer to the PC and how fast the ...

I know someone who needs to connect a modern USB printer into a some kind of industrial machinery that uses a DB15 (15 pin, D-Sub I take it?) on the factory floor. It would be nice if I could find a ...

A socket that connects to a serial interface (one bit following another over one line). Serial ports are widely used by sensors for data acquisition, and they were standard on early computers for ...

You can easily use a PC's printer port for serial-EEPROM programming. You can use a device-programmer circuit used to program the MicroWire serial EE-PROM 93CXX (Figure 1). The circuit is so simple ...

What? I suppose that ADB is a serial interface, yes, but no one's really calling it a serial port. The traditional Mac serial ports were the modem and printer ports. I suppose they got rid of them ...