10 Sep
2007
10 Sep
'07
7:07 p.m.
> Quite why I'd want illeterates to be
connecting cables to my computer is
> totally beyond me...
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Liam Proven wrote:
I never can tell with you, Tony, whether you faking it
and taking the
mick, being deliberately obtuse to make some kind of point, or
genuinely think in a very strange way.
The point, as I have already spelled out abundantly clearly, is that
someone may be perfectly literate and fluent in multiple languages and
completely unfamiliar with English or even the Roman script.
People who do not speak, read or write English use computers too, you
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.
I don't know much of anything about electronics, but I can still usually
recognize what ports are for.
It is much simpler for everyone concerned /all over
the world/ if you
just match the symbol on the end of the cable with the one on the
socket on the back of the computer.
Yes, the word is easier, *in a single country*. But the computer
market is, and has been for many decades, an international one.
But, if a computer is made in a different country than the printer, then
the pictures will probably not match.
There is at least one documented case of a fatality from the frustration
of "RS232" printer interfacing.
A machine called the Psion Death would not sell well,
for obvious
reasons. So, Psion skipped the entire number. Almost anyone doing
business in China does the same.
That would be a nice item to have in a collection.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com