4 Oct
2001
4 Oct
'01
2:34 p.m.
Tony Duell skrev:
> Really, who doesn't? While I've not seen
many colour-coded computers, I've
> seldom seen any without properly labeled ports.
Didn't we go through this a few weeks back? When
some of us posted about
connectors found on ISA slot covers, and others guessed what they were?
Yep. It seems as though a few "elite hackers" still aren't convinced,
though.
However, I've seen too many computers with
incorrect labelling. I've seen
PCs with a DE9 COM port with a mouse icon over it. OK, so the
pre-installed version of Windows presumably expected a serial mouse on
COM1: . That does not make that port a mouse port, though, at least not
to a hardware hacker like me.
No, D9 mouse ports are for quadrature mice. Everyone knows that.
Speaking of quadrature and improperly labelled ports, why do HP call their
PS/2 mouse to HIL adapter "quadrature adapter"? The quadrature ends before it
even goes out of the mouse and onto the cable.
> Are you going to set up your computer by
trial-or-error?
Well, it ensures that people who can change buffer
chips will always find
a job after some idiot plugs a printer cable into a DB25-S RS232 port....
IMO he wouldn't be an idiot if the port wasn't labeled as an RS-232 port.
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