14 Apr
2001
14 Apr
'01
7:14 p.m.
Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote:
> BTW, there IS a documented fatality from the
frustrations of serial
> interfacing.
"Lanny Cox" <chronic(a)nf.sympatico.ca> wrote:
I hope you're joking, but if not, how did this
occur? Electrocution? High
blood pressure due to frustration?
I'm envisioning the frustrated party applying the frustrating device
as a blunt instrument upon its designer, but somehow I expect the
truth is not so satisfying.
-Frank McConnell
14 Apr
14 Apr
9:05 p.m.
New subject: Serial Interfacing can be dangerous (was: 50 pin SCSI
Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote:
> > BTW, there IS a documented fatality from the frustrations of serial
> > interfacing.
"Lanny Cox" <chronic(a)nf.sympatico.ca>
wrote:
> I hope you're joking, but if not, how did this occur? Electrocution? High
> blood pressure due to frustration?
On 14 Apr 2001, Frank McConnell wrote:
I'm envisioning the frustrated party applying the
frustrating device
as a blunt instrument upon its designer, but somehow I expect the
truth is not so satisfying.
About 20 years ago, a guy took his computer and new serial printer to
a computer shop to have them "interfaced". After way too long with no
success, he got so frustrated that he shot and killed the owner of the
shop.
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.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
15 Apr
15 Apr
6:25 p.m.
New subject: Serial Interfacing can be dangerous (was: 50 pin SCSI
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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17 Apr
17 Apr
6:55 p.m.
New subject: Serial Interfacing can be dangerous (was: 50 pin SCSI
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.
--
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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