In computer world, serial communication is the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus. Serial communication is used for all long-haul communication and most computer networks, where the cost of cable and synchronization difficulties make parallel communication impractical.
Serial computer buses are becoming more common even at shorter distances, as improved signal integrity and transmission speeds in newer serial technologies have begun to outweight the parallel buses advantages. The migration from PCI to PCI Express is an example.
or follow to 25 MODERN hardware pinouts.
- ITU-TSS X.21 interface Common names: ITU-TSS (CCITT) X.21, ISO 4903
- PC serial (25 pin) PC serial port (nowdays rare)
- Rosewill RC-303 Serial/LPT PCI Card - RS232/Serial The Rosewill Serial/LPT PCI card (RC-303) with the GD75232 UART (Serial) to PC chip. This pinout is the Serial connector pins on the card (JP2&JP3). Pin 1 is marked by an arrow on the card. They follow the standard IDC number scheme. Odd pins bottom row, Even pins top row.
- RS-232D
- TI Silent 700 Electronic Data Terminal EIA/Auxiliary Coupler The Model 745 was a late-70s dumb terminal with built-in acoustic coupler, with an external connection for direct computer or external modem use.
Apple Pinouts
- Apple GeoPort The back panel of all Power Macintosh models contain two I/O ports for serial telecommunication data.
- Apple IIc Serial Port This is the Apple implementation of the RS-232c interface for the Apple IIc (not IIc+) computer
- Apple Macintosh RS-422 It?s possible to connect RS-232 peripheral to the RS-422 port available on Macintosh computers. Use RXD- as RXD, TXD- as TXD, Ground RXD+, Leave TXD+ unconnected, GPi as CD.
- Apple Macintosh Serial This connector is present on Macintosh 128K, 512K, and 512K enhanced.
- Apple Macintosh XL Serial A
- Apple Macintosh XL Serial B
- AppleLine RS232
DEC Pinouts
- DEC DLV11-J Serial Available on the DEC DLV11-J Serial card
- DEC Dual RS-232 Found on the DEC Multia and DEC UDB (Universal Desktop Box). It contains two Serial ports on one connector. The 1st port is located on the normal pins, and the 2nd port is located on some "spare" pins.
- DEC MMJ MMJ=Modified Modular Jack. Invented by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) (now: Compaq)
IBM Pinouts
- IBM ThinkPad 100/LexMark Lexbook SE10 floppy/serial connector IBM ThinkPad 100/LexMark Lexbook SE10 floppy/serial connector
obsolete computers Pinouts
- C64 RS232 User port Available on the Commodore C64/C128. Software emulated. The signals does not have true RS232 levels. It's TTL level, and RXD/TXD is inverted. It's just the normal User port, used as a RS232 port.
- C64 Serial I/O Available on the Commodore C64, C16, C116 and +4 computers
- CoCo Serial Printer Available on the Tandy Color Computer, also known as CoCo.
- MC-10 Serial port
- Serial (Amiga 1000)
- Serial (Amiga)
- Serial (MSX)
SGI Pinouts
- Serial (SGI MiniDIN) Mini-DIN-8 serial port connectors are found on the Personal IRIS 4D/30, 4D/35, Indigo, Indy, and Indigo2. Most of other SGI workstation uses standard PC serial pinout.
- SGI serial port This connector can be found on Challenge, Onyx, Personal IRIS, and Power Series systems
Sun Pinouts
- SUN Sparcstation 4, 5, 10, 20, LX, Classic, Classic X, Ultra Enterprise 450 Serial port This port is located in SUN Sparcs such as SUN LX/Classic/SS4/5/10/20 and has both serial ports (A/B) in the same connector. Simply plugging in a regular serial cable in results in accessing port A.
- Sun Serial (DB25) Available on SUN computers since the SUN3 series (1988) to the current UltraSparc systems (RS423/RS232)
