Sending and receiving data over a given distance has grown from a passion in humans to a necessity. In 1810, a German man created a system for sending encoded messages via air bubbles. He crafted a ...

The need arose for a programmable control system that handles 8-bit data to have both RS-232 and RS-485 modes. This requirement was satisfied with a serial communication controller-transceiver, an ...

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 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 port ...

???<BR><BR>I have a propriatery RS232 device that I need to connect to a computer that has no serial ports (newer laptop). The hardware has a dongle incorporated into the cable to unlock the software ...

The AP1300 thermal-printer range offers options of RS 232, IrDA, and Bluetooth interfaces. Its typical applications include mobile ticketing and recording, PDA printing, utility billing, in-vehicle ...

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 ...