61.   The USB connection is very smart, and an order of magnitude faster than the serial port connections used by the original Palm Pilot.

62.   The transfer cable, which comes with the unit, demands a free serial port on the computer.

63.   There are labeled ports on the back of the case, making it easier to identify the parallel port and two serial ports, all of them enhanced.

64.   They are faster than traditional serial ports.

65.   They will include FireWire, a high-speed serial port system for connecting external devices like disk drives or other computers.

66.   They plug into a serial port or directly into an expansion slot in your computer.

67.   We connected this computer peripheral, which comes with no installation instructions, to a serial port and then installed the software.

68.   When USB first shows up, PCs are likely to drop from two serial ports to one port.

69.   With external modems, check the serial port cable that connects the modem to your PC.

70.   You connect the camera via cable to a serial port on your computer and then transfer the pictures to the hard drive.