> > What's the deal?
>
> Well..... it *does* come in usful when identifying which socket is
> keyboard, and which is mouse (bearing in mind their similarity - i.e. they
> look identical).
... and for those without PC experience. We had a newbie in one of the
college labs who was trying to install a second printer on some of the
OLD (8088, 80286) machines. But the "other" DB25 connector on the back of
the machines was MALE, ... So she connected them with gender changers.
[for non-PC people: IBM used FEMALE DB25 for parallel printer, and MALE
DB25 for serial]
Back a long time ago, one of our instructors damaged the input circuitry
of of several giant classroom CGA compatible monitors by plugging them
into the Microsoft Bus [green-eyed] Mouse ports
> The colour coding will be essential when the PC world finally wakes up and
> uses fibre optics for everything...
Is the color coding standardized? Or will we have incorrect connections
made by people who follow the color code instead of other cues?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Sun Aug 26 2001 - 12:53:36 BST