usb device to serial

santidiablo · Post by **santidiablo** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 7:55 pm

Hi, does anyone know where I can obtain an adapter to connect a USB device to a serial port?

I've seen many adapters for serial device to USB pc port, but not the other way around. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

MegaVectra · Post by **MegaVectra** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 9:18 pm

Googled it.

http://www.sewelldev.com/usbtoserial.as ... ect_device
http://www.iogear.com/products/product.php?Item=GUC232A
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... =b133-1014
http://www.usb-2-0.com/304096-b21.html

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 9:22 pm

You're NOT going to find an adapter that allows you to connect a USB device to a serial port. No such animal.

santidiablo · Post by **santidiablo** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:31 pm

Hey MegaVectra, I've already seen the adapters you linked to. But all those are for USB port to Serial device - I'm looking for an adapter that does it the other way around. I want to use a USB Wacom tablet on a machine with serial ports. Thanks anyway though.

Penguin, this is for the same machine you gave me advice on regarding the Matrox card. It seems you're right (barring any unforeseen product developments). Is there no way to create some kind of connection or mod? This machine is running WinNT which makes the situation more difficult.

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Invisible Evil · Post by **Invisible Evil** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:45 pm

Old Far...um I mean FP is right

, there be no critters like that in this universe.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 9:31 pm

USB is a BUS communications system. Serial is not. Serial is also much slower.

Also WinNT has no support for USB at all (MS was going to support it but then dropped it when they realized that sales of Win2K would suffer - BASTARDS).

If it wasn't for lack of USB support I'd still be running NT Pro on dedicated business systems. Nice clean fast and stable OS with no bloat.

You could upgrade to Win2K for USB support. You can also add a USB card PCI card to the computer if it doesn't have a USB port, but again you'd have to upgrade to Win2K.

NT also doesn't have native support for dual monitors to my knowledge unless I'm mistaken.