On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Frank Leonhardt via cctalk wrote:
And for amusement, someone wrote in the PCW saying
they'd heard a
salesperson at Radio Shack trying to convince a punter that RS is RS232
stood for Radio Shack.
I have seen a Radio Shack store manager (Albany, California) say exactly
that, in response to a customer gripe about TRS80 serial port not
completely matching the RS232 spec.