20 Mar
1999
20 Mar
'99
7:34 p.m.
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
The problem is, I can't think of a single way to
damage any UART chip by
programming it. I've read the data sheets for quite a lot of standard (and
obscure) serial chips and there is no way to damage them...
For one thing, maybe Jason had a coincidental power surge? Certainly not
impossible. One of my computers has a fried serial port because I was
holding the mouse while wiping the screen with my hand. The static from
the screen jumped right through to the serial port (at any rate, I saw a
spark leaping from my finger to the mouse).
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)