What is a serial port? Serial ports are generally built into the motherboard. This is why the connectors behind the casing that are connected to the motherboard by a wire cable can be used to connect ...

Some businesses may still use older printers with parallel ports, and this is particularly true of devices that have special functions such as wide sheet or continuous roll printing. An adapter cable ...

With the continuing manufacture of new computers, there is a clear and obvious trend of the parallel port becoming less and less common. For our younger readers; the parallel port is an interface ...

The 24-bit I/O card project has been designed to function with parallel/printer port of an Amiga or computer using the Intel 82C55 I/O chip. The design of the device contains read & write strobe, a ...

Q. I have several DOS programs that I still use, running under the DOS prompt in Windows 98. One of them provides printer output, but only to the parallel port. My printer is connected to a USB port.

So I'm trying to detect through Visual Basic 6.0 when a voltage change occurs on one of the pins of the serial/parallel port. The whole thing is pretty simple; no data transfer/handshaking/etc needs ...

???<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 ...

[Andrew] couldn’t pass up a 20ish year old parallel port based webcam he saw on the shelf at a thrift store. It’s a Connectix QuickCam and was the first webcam that did not require a separate video ...