Monday, November 5, 2007

Making old work with new

As more and more manufacturers eliminate legacy ports from their motherboards, customers sometimes end up having to make a choice between sticking to an old PC that has the ability to connect to their older peripherals, or having to buy new peripherals because they decided to upgrade to a new PC.

Although there is nothing wrong with having your customer buy additional peripherals like printers or scanners, some of them might have proprietary equipment like bar-code scanners, cash registers or other products that cost a lot more to upgrade.

With the three devices below they can connect thier old equipment, including keyboards and mice to thier new PC. One advice: check with the peripheral manufacturer to make sure they support this.


FromProductNDPC sku
PS2 to USBTrendnet USB to PS2 adapter2132748
Serial (9 pin) to USBSabrent 6 foot USB 2.0 to serial adapter cable3251473
Parallel to USBCable to Go 6 Ft USB to Parallel adapter6844511

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