It would be useful, but there are problems such as USB ports provide power to the device so conceivably a serial to USB converter would need to have an external power supply. Also as mentioned above you would need something to recognize that a device has been put in and to indicate to the computer because USB is plug and play. Another major problem is that I do believe that USB is much faster then a serial port. For these reasons and possibly many more no one has created a Serial to USB converter. It is like creating a PowerPC emulator for the 68xxx. I believe why he can't use a PCI card is because the 5200 only has a PDS.
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