22 May
1998
22 May
'98
5:55 p.m.
On Sat, 23 May 1998, Charles A Davis wrote:
RS-232, was a well accepted 'Standard'. Any
time that you saw a piece of
equipment with a DB-25 connector on it, it was almost certainly a RS-232
connection. Then along comes 'Big Brother' (IBM) wanting to save a few
pennies on 'printer connectors' (The Amphenol must have been _way_ more
expensieve. But all the printer manufacturers still seem to be able to
be able to afford it.)
DB-25's that might be either a serial port, or maybe a parallel port, or
maybe something else.
It's simple:
DB-25 male: serial port
DB-25 female: parallel port
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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