Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 May 1998, Charles A Davis wrote:
>
> > 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
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_
Received on Sat May 23 1998 - 07:31:33 BST