{"id":1152,"date":"2007-02-02T20:43:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T04:43:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"1152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/1152","title":{"rendered":"How do I connect my Serial Box Interface to a Windows computer that does not have a serial port?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No USB\/Serial adapter works for the Serial Box Interface and Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or later. The least expensive replacement is to get a Go! Link interface and DIN-BTA adapters.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a computer with USB only (no serial or COM ports), and own an older Serial Box Interface, here are your options:<br \/>\n(1) Replace the Serial Box with a <a href=\"\/product\/golink\/\">Go! Link<\/a> (<nobr>GO-LINK<\/nobr>), or one of our other interfaces:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/products\/interfaces\">https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/products\/interfaces<\/a><br \/>\n(2) You can probably use the Serial Box Interface with a USB only computer running Windows 98 or Windows ME, using a Keyspan USB-Serial adapter. We have not extensively tested this option, but in limited testing we have been successful. We have not been successful using other brands of USB-serial adapters (e.g., Belkin).<\/p>\n<p>Related information, including the ULI:<br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No USB\/Serial adapter works for the Serial Box Interface and Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or later. The least expensive replacement is to get a Go!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[484,111,498,1238,1129],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-keyspan","tag-sbi","tag-serial-box-interface","tag-win-2000","tag-win-xp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}