On Aug 04, 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 10:48:00AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > If you're thinking of the physical DE9 port that was typically used for > > connecting "Serial" peripheral devices, you are absolutely correct that > > it is now pretty much defunct in favor of the Universal Serial Bus. > > That being said, I believe one can still purchase proper serial cards as > > consumer hardware (i.e. $50 or so) that'll plug in to a PCIe x1 slot if > > you really need to get away from "USB" for some reason. > > Even easier is to buy a USB to serial converter, eg for £12.85: That still leaves you on USB -- the comment about the PCIe card was specifically for an instance where USB itself was the problem. I've had that a few times where "USB" was the problem for some reason (I don't actually know the underlying cause); but the machines in question are "oh hey, this used machine is 50 bucks on ebay" type things, so that might play into it. Most of the time, one of those 4 port riser cards is fine, but still once or twice I've needed the actual serial card. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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