September 4, 2001—GTCO CalComp, Inc. announced today the immediate release of their new USB-to-Serial Adapter for their line of digitizers and CAD/graphics tablets. This new adapter allows users to connect the serial port on their digitizer to the USB port on Windows-based computers as a USB HID device.

With the addition of this new adapter, digitizer users now have more options when purchasing a digitizer for a specific system, allowing more room for other peripheral devices. The USB-to-Serial Adapter brings a level of versatility to digitizer use, which so far has been unattainable.

Priced at $99, the new USB-to-Serial Adapter will operate with any of GTCO CalComp’s existing lines of digitizers, including AccuTab, Surface-Lit AccuTab, DrawingBoard III, Super L Series, Summagrid V and SummaSketch. Additionally, the adapter will operate under Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.


Founded in 1975, GTCO was awarded a patent for the invention of the world's first absolute-position electromagnetic digitizing technology. Since then, GTCO CalComp has produced and now supports over one million input systems in fifty countries around the world, sold under some of the most recognized brand names in the peripherals industry. With offices in Columbia MD, Scottsdale AZ and Vienna Austria, GTCO CalComp continues to focus on developing input peripherals that dramatically improve individual and group productivity worldwide.