I have a PC with a hand scanner, what I'd like to do is scan a series of barcodes, say 100 or so, and have each value saved as a new line in a text file in windows xp. What is the easiest way to take ...

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...