What's the newest cheap computer I can get with one of these ports native? My dumbass lab equipment won't work on an RS232 to USB adapter
>>55515196
just get a PCI card for it
>>55515196
I have a serial to vga cord.
It just sits in my desk all wrapped up doing nothing all day.
>>55515603
>Serial to vga cord
The fuck are you talking about?
It's a DB-9 serial cable with one male and one female end.
>>55515603
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>>55515196
Try any of those refubrished Lenovo slim form factor PCs, they all have these ancient ports standard. Dell Optiplex might have them as well. Check eBay. They're fucking everywhere for dirt cheap.
>>55515603
Its probably a ega to cga cable. Ega is an old graphics interface that looks like vga. Cga uses db9 like rs232. They were used in pre vga computers to interface them with even older monitors. I have one myself for a cga monitor in an arcade cabinet.
>>55516602
VGA is analog and MDA/CGA/EGA is digital.
>>55515196
there are a few mb that have. even lpt
i was surprised there were even 1151
look for h110m
>>55517512
LPT was way more common recently then RS-232, serial was and is premium now-a-days for legacy applications, many companies pay extra for it.
>>55515196
don't buy a turbo chink adapter and it will work.
>>55517825
No it won't. Adapters only work with UART
Don't motherboards normally have an RS-232 header?
>>55517916
here's a little tip
those built in ports in any modern computer are connected via the USB bus.
>>55515196
most SBC's include a real UART
>>55515196
lmao
>>55517979
>>55517935
Not all.
>>55517959
Nah, I rarely seen ones that use USB, most are real serial, you know it takes nothing to implement it in a southbridge, they all have it.
Most new ones don't have it at least as far as laptops go. We try to get them where I work in IT for obvious reasons, but most laptops don't have it so they can be thinner. I know the second generation of the HP 650 i think may have them but the new generation doesn't have them so findng one may be hard. It might be the 850
>CHIP 9$
https://getchip.com/pages/chip
Addon board.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-PCI-E-PCI-Express-Dual-Serial-DB9-RS232-2-Ports-Controller-Adapter-Card-Wholesale/32598460879.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_0,searchweb201602_3_10037_10017_405_404_407_10033_406_10032_10040,searchweb201603_8&btsid=66953384-cf72-48bf-b1e2-ca75a492b474
You could also check if there is an internal port on you motherboard. For some obscure reason even modern motherboards come with those.
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Free-Shipping-Motherboard-RS232-DB9-Pin-Com-Port-Ribbon-Serial-Cable-Connector-Bracket/832521_32594501769.html
COM header on a recent motherboard MSI B150M BAZOOKA
>>55515367
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