Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!ukma!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cadnetix.COM!cadnetix!rusty From: rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty Carruth) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: RS-232 for voice Message-ID: <9219@cadnetix.COM> Date: 15 Aug 89 22:05:10 GMT References: <8616@cbnews.ATT.COM> <34700002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@cadnetix.COM Reply-To: rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty Carruth) Distribution: usa Lines: 34 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. > >--Phil howard-- There was a time when I had created my own standard, which I (pride showing here, sorry) called CDC-232 (my legal initials are CDC...) since I got so doggone tired of the variations RS 232 allowed you. Lets see, male DCE, no, its a male DTE, no, its a female DCE.... NO! Wait! its a female DTE... ARRGGHHH!!! I finally built my own version of a breakout box. What a pain the RS 232 'standard' can be. (Note to nit-pickers - sure, its really called RS-232-C (I think), but (1) lots of 'rs232c' equipment does not really abide by the standard, and (2) even if they did, there are 4 different ways you could wire a 'standard' RS-232-C connector. So you need 4^2 or 16 different cables to be able to hook any 2 'standard' devices together. YUCK! I would not mind using a 25-pin connector for just 8 signals (including ground) if I could make *ONE* cable that would do the job in all cases. Too bad they did not at least standardize on one sex for the connector on equipment so we would only need 4 cables (assuming that you wire up a cable for each possibility, an addmitedly poor assumption). Then, of course you have the equipment which is wired as a DTE, *except* that it has the signals on pins 2 and 3 reversed from the standard :-( Well, enough whining for now. Sorry this is so late in the thread, our usenet feed is temporarily down..... ---------- Rusty Carruth UUCP:{uunet,boulder}!cadnetix!rusty DOMAIN: rusty@cadnetix.com Daisy/Cadnetix Corp. (303) 444-8075\ 5775 Flatiron Pkwy. \ Boulder, Co 80301 Radio: N7IKQ 'home': P.O.B. 461 \ Lafayette, CO 80026