[Jethomson] worked out a way to use a Nokia USB cable at a USB to Serial cable. He was able to pick up one of these cables for less than $3 delivered. A little probing worked out which conductors ...

[Johan von Konow] found that he was using an FTDI USB-to-Serial chip in a lot of his projects and wanted to have an easy prototyping component on hand to facilitate this. What he came up with is ...

I use a SIIG USB to Serial cable. It uses an FTDI chipset. The driver's up on Windows Update, so it's just plug in, get driver, and go. Get an FTDI based adapter. They have good virtual COM port ...

One of their drivers is the USB Serial Port Driver ... primarily help in establishing USB connections. An FTDI chip is used in mobile phone cables, service boxes, or any USB device that can ...

The driver in question is for a line of USB-to-serial chips designed by Scottish firm FTDI. FTDI's chips are incredibly popular in this space, as just about every microcontroller and embedded ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for FTDI USB Serial Converter Drivers. This is a driver pack that allows USB ports to be used to connect to Serial bus devices with a USB - Serial adapter cable.

They're the precursor to the modern Universal Serial Bus, which has replaced them. This creates a problem. Since USB can do the same thing as many COM ports, most computers now lack serial ports.