Just wondering if anybody else has noticed that the serial header on the new Intel boards deviates from the standard that has been used on their server boards for years. I just spent a number of hours ...

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...

There was a time when all PCs had at least one serial and one parallel port. Today, you won't find either of these ports on a typical desktop or laptop computer, but just because consumer-facing ...

With Linux and the serial port there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that Linux has great support for serial hardware of all sorts and a host of tools for accessing the serial ...

[Andrew] used a DSL router to make his own Terminal Node Controller. This will become part of an APRS-IS network, an Internet-based network built by amateur radio operators. The router used here is a ...