12 Jun
2012
12 Jun
'12
7:33 p.m.
Well, of course, if you want to be a purist about it
you can always
replace the unwieldy mess with the correct cable later, when people
are actually going to *see* it. Getting it running is hardly the
_I_ am much more intereseted in how the machines work, what they were
like to use, and so on, rather than what they look like. So while I'd not
want an unreliable kludge (such as bare wires that could short, or
connections that keep on coming adrift), I'd have no problem with making
an adapter cable and keeping it in use. It's not a permanent
modification, it doesn't damage anything in any way.
time to be a stickler unless it's actually going
to damage something.
Agreed. The things I am totally against (like boardswapping or powering up
an unknown machine to see ehat happens), I am against because they can
cause damage to classic comnputers. Try-it-and-see wiring of an RS232
port will not.
-tony