> I'd
*still* like to someday get my hands on one of the fancier breako=
ut
boxes I
used to see in catalogs... :-)
How fancy is fancy?
Not too terribly, considering I can't in any way justify spending much i=
f any=20
money on such a thing. The ability to interrupt any of the pins, maybe =
do=20
cross-connecting, and LED indicators would be nice.
Err, isn't that what all breakout boxes so, even the simple ones. Every
one I own (and I think I have 5 so far, maybe more) has switches to
open-circuit each of the lines, sockets/ pins and jumper leads to
cross-connect. Some of them monitor all 25 (or maybe 24, often Protective
Ground is omitted) of the lines on LEDs, others monitor only the
cmmonly-used lines, but have some 'spare' indiocators you can patch to
any line.
I've got
one here that does Bit-Error-Rate test, and anohter that will =
do
RS232-current loop conversions, RS232 to parallel
conversions, test RS2=
32,
current loop, or parallel devices, and even
program EPROMs. Oh, it's go=
t a
little strip-printer built in too.=20
Well, I don't see me affording anything like that any time soon, though=
if I=20
were to somehow or other acquire one, I surely would NOT be=20
disappointed. :-)
I got mine ata radio rally for \pounds 15.00 ro something like that.
Yes I think I did rather well ;-).
-tony