My current PC is from 2013, so I never even bothered to check, but as it turns out: My motherboard still has a serial port. 🤯 I thought these had long died out by then. To be honest, I didn’t have the need for one, either, not until recently … So I completely lost track if PCs have these things or not.
All I needed was one of those slot-cable-thingies. (And if the order of pins is correct, then it actually works. 🤦)
https://movq.de/v/89a67cf40f/slot.jpg
Cool! One less USB device. 😃
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(#4bg5k7a) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I think even modern PC still come with serial ports they just don’t wire them up anymore right? They’re still there in the board itself, though just unwired.
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(#4bg5k7a) @prologic@twtxt.net Ah, shit, you might be right. You can even buy these slot plates on Amazon. I didn’t even think to check Amazon, I went straight to eBay and tried to find it there, because I thought “it’s so old, nobody is going to use that anymore, I need to buy second-hand”. 🤦🤦🤦
It really shows that I built my last PC so long ago … I know next to nothing about current hardware. 😢
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(#4bg5k7a) But it is weird that none of the slot plates (that I can find) appear to have the correct pin order. 🤔
The two mainboards I have here use this order:
2468x
13579
But the slot plates use this:
12345
6789x
I tripped over this at first and wondered why it didn’t work.
Has this changed recently or what? 🥴
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