11 Sep
2007
11 Sep
'07
2:59 p.m.
> Why can't they just open the box and look at
the circuitry?
> If it's got a UART, and maybe some 1488,1489 chips, then it is serial,
> etc.
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Liam Proven wrote:
[Laughter]
Hang on... that *was* a joke, right?
Perhaps an exaggeration, but even with my total lack of knowledge of
electronics, how else can I identify the ports on an unknown machine?
A few chips are fairly obvious, such as 6845, UARTs, etc.
Yes, I have seen people connect monitor to mouse port (DE9), serial and
parallel printers to the wrong ports, etc.
There is at
least one documented case of a fatality from the frustration
of "RS232" printer interfacing.
Do tell?