Prices to pay for old computers...

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat May 23 13:26:24 1998

On 22 May 1998, Frank McConnell wrote:

> Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com> wrote:
> > It's simple:
> >
> > DB-25 male: serial port
> >
> > DB-25 female: parallel port
>
> Except...on a peculiar ISA dual-port serial card that HP made
> for the early HP Vectras. One D?-9S like a PC/AT serial
> port, one DB-25S. To be fair, HP put a plastic tag out one side
> of the slot to remind you that this was a serial port.
>
> -Frank McConnell
>

And we must not forget that 'marvellous' 37-pin thing that the Zenith 248
had. What was it? Serial and parallel?
                                                 - don
 
Received on Sat May 23 1998 - 13:26:24 BST