23 Aug
2011
23 Aug
'11
11:16 a.m.
My memory is getting fuzzy, but were there ever any
"gender auto-
detect" cables? In other words, one that automatically determined
I don;t remeebr any truely automatic ones, but there were things with a
few LEDs and sldie switches where you fiddled with the switches until the
maximum numbero LEDs were alight and that was supposed to make the right
connections. I assume a couple of the LEDs monitored TxD and RxD on one
of the ends of the cvble, one of the switched did a straight or cross
conection so that by setting aid swithc until both LEDs glowed, you had
the right connections for TxD and RxD. Well, unless the device was
receivbe-only in which case you couldn't tell which setting was the right
one..
I never had such a cable, as I said earlier I prefer to know exactly
which signals each end is driving.
-tony