On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Richard wrote:
I'll say DB-9 and everyone will understand what I
mean.
Yep. I have a tote full of cables with DB-9 connectors. I mostly use
them for serial printers.
They have pins 1 through 8 and pin 20 connected (some straight through,
some DTE to DTE). Pins 9 through 19, and 21 through 25 are not connected,
and in many cases not present in the shell.