[Jethomson] worked out a way to use a Nokia USB cable at a USB to Serial cable. He was able to pick up one of these cables for less than $3 delivered. A little probing worked out which conductors ...

The classic serial null-modem cable was, among other things ... or CDC chips, creating a USB serial port for each attached computer. The TX and RX lines are cross-connected to allow communication ...

After many, many years of competing I/O standards, the introduction of USB (short for Universal Serial Bus ... to have charging built into the same port. In more recent years, USB has gotten ...

Also known as an RS-232 port, serial ports provide very slow speeds and have been superseded by USB on desktop computers. USB-to-serial adapters are available for old peripherals. DB (D-Sub ...