What's your favorite serial port?

[Deja Q]

Oooh, look at the size of those pins! :wow:


I prefer the 25 pin variety, myself... They commonly do come in 9, 15, and 25 pin varieties...

[Hugin]

1. USB... Definitely.

ESPECIALLY USB 2.0...

I'm still waiting for files I started with 1.1 to finish transferring. :o

[LSK]

10. since you brought it up, how do you determine if a PC has 1.1 or 2.0

I got a custom PC someone gave to me and Im not sure which USB it has.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. If your pen drive doesn't work, it's 1.1.

I learned it the hard way. x(

[LSK]

12. it works, but its really slow

And its really fast on my work pc and my new laptop.

[Hugin]

14. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner...

A *serious* question in the LOUNGE! :rofl:

Anyway, the way it's determined depends on the OS the machine is running...
or a REAL clue is if you're using an external USB drive and it takes FOREVER to
transfer files. The difference is non-trivial. A 4Gig file takes hours with 1.1
and only about an hour with 2.0.

More here:

http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20051204_how_can_i_tell_if_my_computer_has_usb_20_or_11.html

Thanks JAKE! :)

[LSK]

15. thanks for the link

:hi:

[puerco-bellies]

2. Mmm... Cereal Porto's for breakfast.

My some of my earliest multi player gaming was with serial port hook-ups.

[mikeytherat]

3. So then the hookerbot says, "That's not my expansion slot,"

and my friend says, "That's not my gold-plated 25-pin connector!"

mikey_the_rat

[qnr]

4. I don't have a favorite port, but: The Atari 850 ... it introduced me to a whole

wide world of experiences available to me

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8bits/400800/atari850.html

[Lethe]

5. HT u need to stop with all that pr0n

we all know that only real nerds made their own cables to transfer their Commodore 64 collections to PC

[Deja Q]

6. Real nerds used the Atarti 1200XL and Commodore Amiga 3000.

:P :D

[billyskank]

7. Actually

the realest nerds had an Archimedes. ;)

[Burma Jones]

8. Barbed Spiky Anus

[undeterred]

9. That serial port reminds me of YOU, hypno toad

Is it your dad?

[Crabby Appleton]

13. COM2

[Anarcho-Socialist]

16. USB can take multiple entries

[Omphaloskepsis]

17. Firewire.

It has a cool name and Apple made it. Fuck the haters.