23 Aug
2011
23 Aug
'11
7:37 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 24 Aug 2011 at 0:02, Pete Turnbull wrote:
I find it rather amusing that the latest crop of televisions often have
rs232 ports.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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Why? Because as quite a lot of people reading
this are already aware,
modern network switches from almost every major vendor (Cisco, HP,
Juniper, Extreme, etc) as well as most proper servers and many disk
shelves have RS232 console ports (or LOM[1] ports), which is how you
initially configure them, even if the ports are sometimes RJ45-style
jacks rather than DE9s.
It isn't just switches; many consumer devices have, if not RS-232
ports, headers (usually 3V logic levels) to hook to a traditional
serial line. I have a DTV converter box with a DE9M--hooking a
9600N81 terminal to it gets me an interactive debug display at
powerup.