does anyone use serial connections anymore

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Neo565

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• Aug 3, 2012

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Does anyone use serial cables anymore? If so, for what? I use a serial cable to connect to my microserver/managed hub at 9600 baud

 

petteyg359

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• Aug 3, 2012

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Technically, everybody with a modern system using Serial ATA uses serial cables I'm going to assume you mean old DE-15 stuff, though. I have recently used a USB-to-DE-9 adapter for a serial console for some AMD Geode systems. I (rarely) use one for my old LEGO Mindstorms infrared block (I got the thing way back in the days of Windows 98 and having to download special drivers for USB hardware).

 

BrotherJohn

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• Aug 3, 2012

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Yes, some of my Ham gear uses serial, so does the CNC equipment.

 

Knufire

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• Aug 4, 2012

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Yup, downloading code to some old IFI FRC and VEX controllers.

 

gangaskan

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• Aug 29, 2012

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cisco console

 

wagex

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• Aug 29, 2012

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when feeling around in the back of the case when i cant see, i end up trying to plug my vga into it. thats about as useful as it gets for me -.-

 

KillemTheGecko

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• Aug 29, 2012

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I used it last week to program a thermal printer at work.

 

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• Aug 31, 2012

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yep every time I need to put a base config on a switch or router. I use serial emulator usb doda for that and to talk to my car ECU.

 

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• Sep 1, 2012

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UPS from various manufacturers still have them
AV equipment as well
Many networking vendors require them
Alot of Alarm company require them for configuration