u/TALON2_0

Hi guys. So i posted a few days ago about connecting through usb to serial port on DosBox. Just wanted to let everyone know i got it working with all your recommendations. At the end I did use Dosbox since it was the most user friendly(for me).

Background: So i work in industrial maintenance and one of our machines basically run on DOS, when we want to reload parameters or such we use an old XP laptop(OLD) to start up in DOS and use the serial port to connect to the control cards. Now we have other machines that only work on XP and other that we can use windows 10-11. I want to get a central computer to be able to connect to every machine.

Problem: I'm using DOSBox to run DOS on Windows 11. We have a CD the the DOS program which figured out how to access and run. We used a DB-9 Serial port to talk to the machine and obviously modern computers don't have that serial port. So I'm thinking of using a DB-9 to USB (RS232) adapter to connect to the machine, but in my head i need 2 drivers to basically run simultaneously, 1 for the 'DB-9 to USB' and then another to access the USB through DOS.

If anyone could give me advice or point me into a direction I would greatly appreciate it. (Attached image is the DB-9 port on the old laptop)

So i don't know where else to post this so if anyone can give me direction or something i would appreciate it.

I got a cheap drone from a friend and want to strip it for parts to build my own drone(because why not) and i want to learn more about stripping electronics. What i want to learn now is how to strip the rc reciever and 'sender' and use it either on other projects or this project. If someone could tell me where i could get a pin-out and maybe a tutorial i would appreciate it. Don't know of the question is clear enough so please ask if not