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From: tjk@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Thomas Krueger)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: RS-232 for voice
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Date: 1 Aug 89 18:10:58 GMT
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In article <2587@iscuva.ISCS.COM> jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey) writes:
>In article <34700002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>I dream for the day that RS-232 and V.35 connectors are banned and the
>>designers of them flogged and hung.
>
>YES!  I'll even help tie them up for the flogging.

In defense of the DB25 connectors, wiring custom cables (with crimp-on pins,
natch) with your handy pin tool is pretty easy for weird applications like
when HP decides on some of their computers to use a different pin for DTR
than everyone else. I dunno why everyone had to switch to DB9 connectors,
but even that wouldn't have been so bad if the pinout of an IBM AT matched
the pinout of an Annex!

							- Tom
--
                 "A Veteran of the Psychic Wars"

Thomas Krueger, Univ WI Milwaukee College of Engineering Electronics Shop
tjk@csd4.milw.wisc.edu    [moderator, info-high-audio]    +1 414 229 5172