Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??

Was there such a thing.

My cable collection was sort of hilarious, I don't know why I kept
some things for so long... I must have tossed 20# of parallel port
printer cables ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Jim Thompson wrote:

Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??


Common as dirt.

In article ,
Jim Thompson writes:

Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??

If you take the serial connector apart, you will find a USB-Serial
chip.

If you plug the USB end into a PC, it should turn into another serial port.
That's /dev/ttyUSBx on Linux systesm, and COMx on Windows boxes.

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On 24/10/2012 01:46, Jim Thompson wrote:
Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??

Was there such a thing.

My cable collection was sort of hilarious, I don't know why I kept
some things for so long... I must have tossed 20# of parallel port
printer cables ;-)

...Jim Thompson


Yes. Hang onto it. Same with old SCSI and IEEE gear. One day you may
need it to connect your prehistoric test & measurement kit to a new PC.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:46:41 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??

Was there such a thing.

My cable collection was sort of hilarious, I don't know why I kept
some things for so long... I must have tossed 20# of parallel port
printer cables ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I Just reciently had to procure a Centronics to Parallel prot cable.
No one carries those anymore, except the little computer shops. Hang
on to those as they are obsolete.

Cheers

Martin Riddle wrote:

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:46:41 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??

Was there such a thing.

My cable collection was sort of hilarious, I don't know why I kept
some things for so long... I must have tossed 20# of parallel port
printer cables ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I Just reciently had to procure a Centronics to Parallel prot cable.
No one carries those anymore, except the little computer shops. Hang
on to those as they are obsolete.


How many hundred do you need?

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:13:38 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Martin Riddle wrote:

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:46:41 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??

Was there such a thing.

My cable collection was sort of hilarious, I don't know why I kept
some things for so long... I must have tossed 20# of parallel port
printer cables ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I Just reciently had to procure a Centronics to Parallel prot cable.
No one carries those anymore, except the little computer shops. Hang
on to those as they are obsolete.


How many hundred do you need?

I only needed one for a new Zebra printer/HP printserver, but the
local offcemax /staples doesn't carry those anymore.

Cheers

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:06:46 -0500,
(Hal Murray) wrote:

In article ,
Jim Thompson writes:

Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??

If you take the serial connector apart, you will find a USB-Serial
chip.

If you plug the USB end into a PC, it should turn into another serial port.
That's /dev/ttyUSBx on Linux systesm, and COMx on Windows boxes.

Thanks! I'll keep it. I have ONE very-occasional-use event recorder
that needs a serial port input (my infamous aircraft noise reporter
that automatically sends E-mail to the blond bitch at city hall :-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Martin Riddle wrote:

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:13:38 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Martin Riddle wrote:

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:46:41 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??

Was there such a thing.

My cable collection was sort of hilarious, I don't know why I kept
some things for so long... I must have tossed 20# of parallel port
printer cables ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I Just reciently had to procure a Centronics to Parallel prot cable.
No one carries those anymore, except the little computer shops. Hang
on to those as they are obsolete.


How many hundred do you need?

I only needed one for a new Zebra printer/HP printserver, but the
local offcemax /staples doesn't carry those anymore.


I have them from 6 to 25 feet, if you ever need another. Just pay
postage. I still have plenty of 9 & 25 pin serial cables.

On 10/24/2012 10:41 AM, Martin Riddle wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:46:41 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??

Was there such a thing.

My cable collection was sort of hilarious, I don't know why I kept
some things for so long... I must have tossed 20# of parallel port
printer cables ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I Just reciently had to procure a Centronics to Parallel prot cable.
No one carries those anymore, except the little computer shops. Hang
on to those as they are obsolete.

Cheers

Worse are the DB-25 to the mini-printer connector cables. If mine
breaks I think I'll just skip printing from now on.

Rick

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:46:41 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??

Was there such a thing.

My cable collection was sort of hilarious, I don't know why I kept
some things for so long... I must have tossed 20# of parallel port
printer cables ;-)

...Jim Thompson


Hey, do you have a baseball team out there in the desert? The Arizona
Armadillos or something?


--

John Larkin Highland Technology Inc
www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom timing and laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer
Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:54:53 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:06:46 -0500,
(Hal Murray) wrote:

In article ,
Jim Thompson writes:

Further cleaning up in the office found an odd cable... USB on one
end, what looks to be serial on the other??

If you take the serial connector apart, you will find a USB-Serial
chip.

If you plug the USB end into a PC, it should turn into another serial port.
That's /dev/ttyUSBx on Linux systesm, and COMx on Windows boxes.

Thanks! I'll keep it. I have ONE very-occasional-use event recorder
that needs a serial port input (my infamous aircraft noise reporter
that automatically sends E-mail to the blond bitch at city hall :-)

...Jim Thompson
The wire is pretty good quality and the cables are very handy to use
in custom projects if you have corresponding connectors.
John Ferrell W8CCW