From: William Pechter <pechter@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 21:31:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0be48695-c49c-a3f6-5905-aa36878b209a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d78d1cdf-b7d9-29e8-95c3-c3d61193e446@kilonet.net>
On 6/23/2019 9:12 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
>
> On 6/23/2019 8:56 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> Arthur's comments bring back some memories. I probably still have this,
>> a ribbon serial cable with male and female connectors on both ends and
>> a breadboard in the middle. I could hook anything to anything :)
>>
>> That said, I'm *ecstatic* that I no longer have to deal with serial
>> ports.
>>
>
> I did a lot of work with RS232 in the 80's to the point where my
> friend said I had coined a new phrase - basically sounds like
> "Are-Ess-too-turdy-too" said really fast ;) (I'm from NY)
>
> From serial lines that were slow, going to parallel interfaces for
> printers, parallel SCSI, and a few other parallel interfaces, I
> thought were nice, now we've gone back to SATA, SAS and PCI-E lanes
> that are basically serial interfaces.
>
> I have an RS232 breakout box I use for situations like this. Still
> having to deal with DTE-DCE issues to this day with Cisco,
> Nortel/Avaya, and other network, telecom or even SAN equipment. A
> recent Dell Compellent SC7xxxx I installed came with a USB cable, but
> it's really a USB to RS232 interface built into the controllers. SMH.
>
> ak
>
>
I'm still partial to having machines with real serial ports on 'em
although I have all the USB serial/parallel cables as well.
Still have a couple of desktops with Real RS232 ports just in case. My
old K6-2 has both the 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch floppies -- just in case.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-24 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-23 23:10 Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-06-23 23:52 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24 0:02 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-06-24 0:35 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-06-24 0:53 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24 0:56 ` Larry McVoy
2019-06-24 1:12 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24 1:31 ` William Pechter [this message]
2019-06-24 1:51 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24 1:40 ` Bakul Shah
2019-06-24 3:20 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-06-24 0:50 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24 21:07 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-06-24 21:30 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-06-24 21:59 ` Gregg Levine
2019-06-23 23:57 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-06-24 0:40 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-06-24 1:37 ` William Pechter
2019-06-24 3:17 ` Jason Stevens
2019-06-24 1:57 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-06-24 2:09 ` pechter
2019-06-24 0:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-06-24 0:19 ` Seth Morabito
2019-06-24 0:33 ` Larry McVoy
2019-06-24 1:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-06-25 3:54 ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2019-06-25 11:21 ` ckeck
2019-07-09 16:28 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 16:53 ` KatolaZ
2019-07-09 17:12 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 17:25 ` Seth Morabito
2019-07-09 17:34 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 19:19 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 19:41 ` Richard Salz
2019-07-09 20:09 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 20:58 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 20:54 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 21:30 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 21:35 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 21:37 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 21:46 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 22:02 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 23:23 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-10 0:06 ` Dan Cross
2019-07-10 0:26 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-10 0:38 ` Dan Cross
2019-07-10 0:49 ` Larry McVoy
2019-07-10 0:57 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-10 1:26 ` [TUHS] V0 B Compiler Warren Toomey
2019-07-10 1:29 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-10 1:32 ` [TUHS] Plot 10 Sources Clem Cole
2019-07-10 2:51 ` Charles Anthony
2019-07-10 3:00 ` Charles Anthony
2019-07-10 3:01 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-10 12:51 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-07-10 14:34 ` Clem cole
2019-07-10 1:02 ` [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps Arthur Krewat
2019-07-10 1:19 ` Larry McVoy
2019-07-10 1:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-07-10 0:28 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 22:01 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 22:44 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 23:14 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-10 0:24 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-10 1:13 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 17:33 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-15 3:21 ` [TUHS] Historical " Mary Ann Horton Gmail
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