On Thu, 2023-10-26 at 22:30 -0700, Russell Senior wrote: > I love RS232 and UARTs generally, I use them all the time and for me > they > will never go out of style, but I was wondering today about a > specific > marriage of the ancient and the modern, and it was hard to believe, > what > with USB being a pretty pervasive thing, they might exist, AND YET: > > https://www.startech.com/en-us/cards-adapters/pex1s953lp > > THEY DO.
I've been using the two port version of this card for years. Very robust cards, never had one fail. I use them to control the drive motors in a medical device that helps doctors treat vertigo. USB devices literally burn up when we tried them in this application. > > Meanwhile, parallel SCSI (which I've been using all week) has pretty > much > vanished from the modern world. > Same with Firewire, cables and all, gone, not to be found anywhere. Derek Loree
