I used to work on x-ray equipment that still used serial/rs-232 ~4 years ago. I'm sure they are still around. I had to set up multiboot laptops that ran win 95/

I used to work on x-ray equipment that still used serial/rs-232 ~4 years ago. I'm sure they are still around. I had to set up multiboot laptops that ran win 95/98/xp, because we couldn't virtualize the serial connection properly. And yes, the USB-to-serial rarely worked either. Man that job was frustrating, but it sure was a lot of fun!