For some of our instruments at work, we print directly off of them to old fan-fold dot-matrix serial printers. For example, we have some intruments that measure the vapor pressure of liquids and print ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do you use to charge your phone? A USB cable. What about connecting peripherals like your mouse or keyboard to your laptop? USB again. Gaming controllers, external drives, speakers — they all ...

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 ...