The cache is retrieved by connecting a device that has a USB port and that is able to read standard text files.

* USB hub, allows many USB devices to be connected to a single USB port

The microwave would be targeted at office workers and students and can be powered by a computer via a USB port.

Rather than controlling games these joysticks plug into the USB port and control the pointer.

Some computer sound cards include a standard MIDI connector, whereas others connect by any of various means that include the D-subminiature DA-15 game port, USB, FireWire, Ethernet or a proprietary connection.

* An external keyboard connected via USB, Infrared port, or Bluetooth.

Some PDAs also have a USB port, mainly for USB flash drives.

There are also many turntables on the market designed to be plugged into a computer via a USB port for needle dropping purposes.

A Mini-mouse is a small egg-sized mouse for use with laptop computers ; usually small enough for use on a free area of the laptop body itself, it is typically optical, includes a retractable cord and uses a USB port to save battery life.

The " Lombard " appeared in 1999, ( AKA: Bronze Keyboard ) a thinner, lighter, and faster ( 333 or 400 MHz ) PowerBook with a longer battery life and had both USB and SCSI built in and was a New World ROM Mac, and then the " Pismo " in 2000, which replaced the single SCSI port with two FireWire ports, updated the PowerBook line to AGP graphics, a 100 MHz bus speed, and DVD-ROM optical drives standard, in addition to dropping the " G3 " from the PowerBook name.

The serial I / O channels implement a slave USB interface, a SDLC, two UARTs, an IrDA interface, a MCP, and a synchronous serial port.

The SA-1101 provided additional peripherals to complement those integrated on the SA-1100 such as a video output port, two PS / 2 ports, a USB controller and a PCMCIA controller that replaces that on the SA-1100.

Modern thin clients attempt to address this limitation via port mapping or USB redirection software.

In many computing contexts, " TTY " has become the name for any text terminal, such as an external console device, a user dialing in to the system on a modem on a serial port device, a printing or graphical computer terminal on a computer's serial port or the RS-232 port on a USB-to-RS-232 converter attached to a computer's USB port, or even a terminal emulator application in the window system using a pseudo terminal device.

Starting with the NW-S series, Walkmans feature Sony's new proprietary port called WM-PORT which is a USB 2. 0 compliant 22-pin connector.

For residential variations of DSL, this is usually the Ethernet ( RJ-45 ) port or a USB port ; in rare models, a FireWire port is used.

# The UPS to report its status to the computer it powers via a communications link such as a serial port, Ethernet, GSM / GPRS or USB

Many can be used on a standalone basis without a computer, using a memory card or USB connector.

Three open-source keyer / keyset designs are available: The pickey a ps / 2 device based on the PIC microcontroller, the spiffchorder a USB device based on the Atmel AVR family of microcontrollers, and the GKOS keypad driver for Linux as well as the Gkos library for the Atmel / Arduino open source board.

The band sold recordings of the shows on the Intriguer tour on USB flash drives and made individual live tracks available for free download.

Computer files can be also stored on other media in some cases, such as magnetic tapes, compact discs, Digital Versatile Discs, Zip drives, USB flash drives, etc.

A device on the PCI bus or USB is identified by two ID's which consist of 4 numbers and / or letters A to F. The vendor ID identifies the vendor of the device.

Encryption can be used to protect data " at rest ", such as files on computers and storage devices ( e. g. USB flash drives ).

Fees are usually charged for distribution on compact discs and bootable USB drives, or for services of installing or maintaining the operation of free software.

Wireless internet is portable: users can connect nearly anywhere through a receiver ( connected to the client via USB or Ethernet ) and it provides download rates between 512 kbit / s and 1 Mbit / s depending on the chosen plan.

As of 2007, virtually all motherboards come with at least four USB ports on the rear, with at least 2 connections on the board internally for wiring additional front ports that may be built into the computer case.

In addition to the original 31. 25 kbit / s ( baud is the signalling rate and is the reciprocal of the shortest signalling element ; bits / sec is the data rate ) current-loop transported on 5-pin DIN, other connectors have been used for the same electrical data, and transmission of MIDI streams in different forms over USB, IEEE 1394 a. k. a. FireWire, and Ethernet is now common.

USB depends on the CPU to manage its transmission, which causes 2 to 10 ms, or about 2 to 10 MIDI commands, of additional latency and jitter.

MIDI over USB is increasingly common on musical instruments.

The necessary keys are usually too large to memorize ( but see proposal Passmaze ) and must be stored on a local computer, security token or portable memory device, such as a USB flash drive or even floppy disk.

* Envaulting technology is a password-free way to secure data on e. g. removable storage devices such as USB flash drives.

Devices that convert USB to RS-232 may not work with all software on all personal computers and may cause a reduction in bandwidth along with higher latency.

Some of the newer calculators are similar, with the addition of more memory, faster processors, and USB connection such as the TI-82, TI-83 series, and TI-84 series.

They feature the same processor and the same amount of Flash memory, but the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition features a built in USB port, clock, and changeable faceplates.

The main improvements of the TI-84 Plus and TI-84 Plus Silver Edition are a modernized case design, changeable faceplates ( Silver Edition only ), a few new functions, more speed and memory, a clock, and USB port connectivity.

Like the standard TI-84 Plus, the Silver Edition includes a built-in USB port, a built-in clock, and assembly support.

Independent developers have released drivers for the TI-84 Plus and TI-84 Plus Silver Edition in order to access USB mass storage devices.

* Chamber ( TempTale ), a USB Interface Plus Reader

In July 2004, Tulip announced a new series of products using the Commodore name: fPET, a flash memory-based USB Flash drive ; mPET, a flash-based MP3 Player and digital recorder ; eVIC, a 20 GB music player.

* USB and FireWire support improvements: Windows Me is the only operating system in the Windows 9x series that includes generic drivers for USB mass storage devices and USB printers.

In addition to all the features of the 49g +, the 50g also includes the full equation library found in the 48G series ( also available for the 49g + with ROM 2. 06 and above ), as well as the periodic table library originally available as a plug-in card for the 48S series, as of ROM 2. 15, and has an asynchronous serial port in addition to IrDA and USB ports of the 49g +.

: 84 series expandable via special software to use up disk space on a USB memory drive.

* WUSB54G series of USB wireless adapters use the Ralink RT2500 chipset.

* The May 2011 raid of Osama Bin Laden's compound revealed that he used a series of USB thumb drives to store his email drafts.

USB and WLAN are supported to a great extent as well as current embedded hardware as ALIX, Soekris and EPIA series.

SanDisk produces many different types of flash memory, including various memory cards and a series of USB removable drives.

Beyond the operating system itself, add-on hardware-plus-software combinations ( for adding more full-featured HTPC abilities to any Mac ) include Elgato's EyeTV series PVRs, AMD's " ATI Wonder " external USB 2. 0 TV-tuners, and various individual devices from third-party manufacturers.

A line of custom USB controllers for the series had been discontinued even earlier and now command a large premium on sites such as Yahoo!

Of more recent times, the AT89 series has been augmented with 8051-cored special function microcontrollers, specifically in the areas of USB, I²C ( two wire interface ), SPI and CAN bus controllers, MP3 decoders and hardware PWM.

The USB specification requires that bus-powered hubs may not be connected in series to other bus-powered hubs.

With the evolution of consumer digital camera resolution ( megapixels ), the advent of the USB interface and the rise of high-capacity storage media, Mavicas started to offer other alternatives for recording images: the floppy-disk ( FD ) Mavicas began to be Memory Stick compatible ( initially through a Memory Stick Floppy Disk adapter, but ultimately through a dedicated Memory Stick slot ), and a new CD Mavica series — which used 8 cm CD-R / CD-RW media — was released in 2000.