17 Apr
2001
17 Apr
'01
6:55 p.m.
I found the reference to the reference. Page viii ("Introduction") in
"The RS232 Solution" by Joe Campbell; Sybex 1984. The original reference
was Infoworld, June 20, 1983. Floyd French Of Gladstone, Missouri shot
and killed Henry Phillip Bouldin, the owner of the Altair Computer Center,
after unsuccessful attempts to interface a computer with a serial printer.
BTW, that is an excellent book for programmers with soldering irons; it
takes you through making simple breakout boxes, and using LEDs to map out
the signals. Several of the commercial breakout boxes pictured were
mine.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
I read about it in probably Infoworld at the
time. When Joe Campbell
was writing "The RS232 Solution" or "C Programmers guide to Serial
Communication" (I forget which), I mentioned it to him and he tracked
it down and put it into the book as a sidebar. I don't have either
book handy today, but if somebody needs the reference tracked down,
there is a full reference to the news story in one of those two books.
I recall having recently catalogued both books and so can easily find them
and look for the reference.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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