Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Serial Ports

Ah, the good old days of serial and parallel ports... I have several tubs of old computer hardware - IDE cables, video and sound cards, old processors (even my favorite of all time - the Celeron 300A*), etc. I went through them over the week-end and have set aside about a third of it to be recycled. I digress...


Alex (PA1SBM) finds no serial ports or PCI on his new PC, but after a false start finds a card that works.


* Does it make me a huge geek for having a favorite CPU? I just remember how much bang for the buck you got with the Celeron 300A as it easily overclocked to 450 MHz.

2 comments:

  1. I still have an older machine with serial and parallel ports that I use for most of my radio programming.

    I just find them to be much easier to use than USB and newer OSs which are always so finicky when it comes to programming software and cables.

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  2. No it does not make you a geek. :-) ..but this is coming from a guy that makes his living on overclocking.

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