Huh I never experienced that at all.. Maybe with certain specific software? I did blow up my serial ports several times with incorrectly wired cables. Luckily

Huh I never experienced that at all.. Maybe with certain specific software? I did blow up my serial ports several times with incorrectly wired cables. Luckily the first time I put the controller IC in a socket so the second time around it was easy :P But it was pretty sensitive to stuff like that. I've never managed to blow up a PC serial port and IIRC the controller IC was the same so I guess they used extra buffering or something.