Remember serial ports?

[yesthattom]

I need to connect to the serial port of a machine at home. Now if I was at work, I would simply connect it to our serial port console server. But at home? I haven’t had a laptop with a serial port in ages. The last time I needed one I bought a USB<->Serial adaptor.... which I can’t find right now.

UGH!

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[inflectionpoint.livejournal.com]

Yup.

I heart those. For when you gotta do it with a serial port.

(Not that I hate hate hate MyCo for making an instrument that requires a serial port and can't be reliably run on a USB to serial widget cos we never tested it for such things. Nah. I don't have issues or anything.)

Want more fun? How about an old fashioned parallel port?

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

My mini docking station sort of gadget has a parallel port too. And when my new Vista laptop shows up I'll find out whether it will work with it too, or only with XP.