23 May
1998
23 May
'98
12:31 a.m.
Sam Ismail wrote:
On Sat, 23 May 1998, Charles A Davis wrote:
I've got a gagload of equipment that disagrees with you. At least the
connectors on my TRS-80 Model II are labelled in english instead of
foolish little "universally understandable" hieroglyphs. (My ass if
they're "universally understandable" -- those fewking pictures never
mean a thing to me, I'm handicapped by early literacy).
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
RS-232, was a well accepted 'Standard'.
Any time that you saw a piece of
equipment with a DB-25 connector on it, it was almost certainly a RS-232
connection. Then along comes 'Big Brother' (IBM) wanting to save a few
pennies on 'printer connectors' (The Amphenol must have been _way_ more
expensieve. But all the printer manufacturers still seem to be able to
be able to afford it.)
DB-25's that might be either a serial port, or maybe a parallel port, or
maybe something else.
It's simple:
DB-25 male: serial port
DB-25 female: parallel port