Serial Interfacing can be dangerous (was: 50 pin SCSI

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Apr 17 17:55:02 2001

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_at_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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