26 Aug
2001
26 Aug
'01
6:58 a.m.
Well, yes, I understand having labels from the factory, but thats not
what I am talking about. For instance, theis video card I bought has a
monitor symbol on it already, but someone wrote "monitor" on it in
marker. Why do users label stuff like that? How about the floppy
drives I mentioned earlier? The 3.5" floppy was labeled "Hard disk A",
and the 5.25" floppy was labeled, "Floppy drive b:". That was obviuosly
done by a user, as if they were going to forget which drive was for what
kind of disk to insert.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
... and for those without PC experience. We had a
newbie in one of the
college labs who was trying to install a second printer on some of the
OLD (8088, 80286) machines. But the "other" DB25 connector on the back of
the machines was MALE, ... So she connected them with gender changers.
[for non-PC people: IBM used FEMALE DB25 for parallel printer, and MALE
DB25 for serial]
Back a long time ago, one of our instructors damaged the input circuitry
of of several giant classroom CGA compatible monitors by plugging them
into the Microsoft Bus [green-eyed] Mouse ports
The colour coding will be essential when the PC
world finally wakes up and
uses fibre optics for everything...
Is the color coding standardized? Or will we have incorrect connections
made by people who follow the color code instead of other cues?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com