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[96.242.232.93]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c4sm5359270qkd.24.2019.06.23.18.31.38 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 23 Jun 2019 18:31:38 -0700 (PDT) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <92db46d5-d821-a792-7753-dfc5f2898cbf@mhorton.net> <20190624005614.GF20473@mcvoy.com> From: William Pechter Message-ID: <0be48695-c49c-a3f6-5905-aa36878b209a@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 21:31:44 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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