CoCo's *are* real... (was: OT: PC Motherboard with a vacuum tube

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Sep 6 17:08:00 2002

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Huh? The CoCo had a standard RS-232 port, with the exception of the control
> lines.
AND connector
It was SERIAL, and it was close enough to RS-232 for most COMMON
uses. But it was NOT RS-232

EXCEPT,...
Somebody challenged Radio Shack about calling their serial port
"RS-232". The Radio Shack answer was, "Of course it is really RS-232. The
RS in RS-232 stands for "Radio Shack", so we can make any changes that we
want in the standard."
Received on Fri Sep 06 2002 - 17:08:00 BST