If your computer does not have a serial port, but does have USB ports, you can use this adapter cable to change a USB port to a serial port. The cable is approx. 3.5 ft long. Each adapter cable comes with a mini-CD with drivers for Win98, WinME, Win2000, WinXP, Mac, and Linux. Installation instructions are on the CD also. These are great to use with our interfaces if you have a laptop or desk computer that doesn't have a serial port. 

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Description:
Allows you to connect any device with any RS-232 or DB9 Male connector to a USB port.

Introduction:
The USB Serial Converter is the lightest way to connect your serial device (PDA, digital interface, camera, etc.) to the USB port on a Mac or PC. This product operates as a bridge between one USB port and a standard RS-232 Serial port. Just connect the cable into any USB port and plug any RS-232 device or any DB 9P Male connector, such as, PDA, scanner or printer, into the other end.

Features:
* Compliant with the Standard Specification of USB 1.1 (This means it will also work with USB 2 ports.)
* Supports RS-232 serial interface
* Supports up to 500 kbps data transfer rate
* Detects USB suspend condition
* Supports Plug & Play specification
* USB host device drivers available
* Draws power directly from USB requiring no additional power adapter
* Windows Vista Compatible
* Prolific chipset

NOTE:  We have not tried these with the Windows VISTA operating system. (Because we don't have a computer running VISTA) As you can see above the place where we buy these says they will work with VISTA (I have been told by a customer that this applies to the regular 32 bit processor system. If you have the high tech 64 bit processor these may not work with your system.)  

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