Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?

From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Tue Aug 28 17:31:36 2001

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Tony Duell wrote:

> > See, I get confused with that second letter. What makes it a DE9, and
> > not a DB9?
>
> The shell size :
> normal high denisty
> D : 50 pin (Sun-style SCSI) ????

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This one has something like 72 pins, and is used with some frequency on
multi-port serial configurations. IBM uses them on their 6-port ASCII
Workstation Controllers which fit AS/400 machines, and I have a couple of
DigiBoard MC/8 cards which use this connector for the host-end of the
octopus cable.

> Yes, it's conventional to give the gender of the pins. This is confusing
> for a number of connector types, including D-series.

I liked another subscriber's idea: use "plug" and "socket". Though I guess
I could see how this might also be confusing.

ok
r.
Received on Tue Aug 28 2001 - 17:31:36 BST