5 Oct
2007
5 Oct
'07
10:44 a.m.
On Thursday 04 October 2007 15:05, Tony Duell wrote:
I'd *still* like to someday get my hands on one of the fancier breakout boxes
I used to see in catalogs... :-)
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
My view is
that if you have spent little or nothing on the computer.
Then= a few pounds on a cable is a good investment. If you do not have
experie=
This is basically my view. As I said last night, don;t think of it as
'The cable cost 20 times as much as the rest of the computer' but as
'I've got a very nice machine here and it only cost me \pounds 21.00'
nce in making up cables then don't waste time
learning for a small
number.
I'm not so sure about that. Very often in setting up a vintage computer
you'll need a special cable (RS232 serial cables being an obvious
example, there are all sorts of odd pin-swaps you need for some
machines...), and it makes a lot of sense to be abe to make it up. You
can't always buy the right cable off-the-shelf, particularly not for
obscure classics.