In the medical and industrial fields RS-232 and RS-485 are still alive and kicking.
I have numerous machines that I service which still have RS-232 ports on them. I see RS-232 and RS-485 on industrial equipment. They were good solid standards and I guess if it ain't broke don't break it. On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 1:26 AM Derek Loree <d...@drloree.com> wrote: > 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 >
