6 Oct
2007
6 Oct
'07
4:15 p.m.
On Saturday 06 October 2007 18:13, Tony Duell wrote:
Not too terribly, considering I can't in any way justify spending much
if any money on such a thing. The ability to interrupt any of the pins,
maybe do cross-connecting, and LED indicators would be nice.
Err, isn't that what all breakout boxes so, even the simple ones.
No. I've not looked at that sort of thing in catalogs for quite a while, but
the last time I did, some years ago, that sort of thing was at the upper end
of what at least one company was offering, other stuff was quite simpler,
omitting the indicators and such, maybe a more limited patching ability, or
whatever.
I got mine ata radio rally for \pounds 15.00 ro something like that.
Yes I think I did rather well ;-).
I would tend to agree with that. Perhaps I should make it a point to get to
those some time, though accumulating some excess cash first would probably
help. It's been that kind of a year..
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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I'd
*still* like to someday get my hands on one of the fancier
breakout boxes I used to see in catalogs... :-)
How fancy is fancy? Every one I own (and I think I have 5 so far, maybe
more) has switches to
open-circuit each of the lines, sockets/ pins and jumper leads to
cross-connect. Some of them monitor all 25 (or maybe 24, often Protective
Ground is omitted) of the lines on LEDs, others monitor only the
cmmonly-used lines, but have some 'spare' indiocators you can patch to
any line.
About the only thing I've accumulated so far is a double-ended adapter that
has seven LEDs in it, which has already proved useful enough to have
justified its fairly reasonable cost. No patching in that one, just the
indicators, but it comes in handy sometimes anyway.
How does one accumulate _five_ of those things? :-)
I've got one here that does Bit-Error-Rate test,
and anohter that will
do RS232-current loop conversions, RS232 to parallel conversions, test
RS232, current loop, or parallel devices, and even program EPROMs. Oh,
it's got a little strip-printer built in too.
Well, I don't see me affording anything like that any time soon,
though if I were to somehow or other acquire one, I surely would NOT
be disappointed. :-)