and simply build my own USB to serial adapter that uses pogo pins instead of pin headers. This actually wouldn’t be that much work — two hours to design the circuit, maybe an hour assembling ...

Many early PC designs used DB9 serial ports to communicate ... You may also find computers that have PS/2 or USB connectors for the mouse and additional 9-pin outlets for joysticks or dedicated ...

There was a time when if you bought a USB mouse, in the box was also ... it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port. Those mice from a decade or more ago would have ...

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus ... as these connectors were at the time, you'll rarely see them outside of older or legacy devices today. The USB Mini-B is a five-pin connector that came ...

Someday we'll look back and laugh (or cry) at our early USB struggles ... why wasn't the Universal Serial Bus designed with a reversible connector from the outset? It is the most frustrating ...