ANSWER: The most obvious difference is size. The parallel port on the back of your computer is a 25-pin port, while the serial port has room for nine pins. But the real difference is in the way they ...

Anyone know? I wanted to get something semi-rugged for a friends CNC setup, or at least something that's easy to get a skin for the keyboard. Thinkpad stuff is usually easier to find. I suppose a ...

I ran into some hardware problems with installing Windows XP on an older machine (couldn't copy SHELL32.DLL - anyone knows specifically why this occurs, I'd love to hear it - the things I do know are ...

MY OLD FRIEND Dudley is an accomplished lawyer, gourmet cook, world traveler, raconteur and an enthusiastic, if not technically oriented computer user. He also tries to solve problems himself before ...

While the average computer user likely hasn’t given much thought to the lowly serial port in decades, the same can’t be said for the hardware hacker. Cheap serial-to-USB adapters are invaluable for ...

Getting data to a storage medium requires transmission. Parallel transmission has historically been the preferred way to write data to disk. But at current speeds, serial transmission can be faster ...

You all know that there are a number of serial ports in your personal computer. The serial ports act as interface which allows transfer of information between the computers. The first serial port is ...