On Tue, November 27, 2007 8:04 pm, Nick Croft wrote:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>>
>> You can get parallel and/or serial null modem cables from Parramatta
>> Jaycar.
>>
>>
>> It was amusing window shopping for me a couple of weeks ago -- "my God
>> they still make, package and sell this kind of stuff."
>
> Thank God they still do. You never know when some project will send you
> back to the past.


back to the past ?

so how do you control say some industrial device (if not through a serial
port)?

whilst perhaps they're somewhat past on a pc, I think they're still
'current interface' on things like industrial things, no ?

(one reason why I'm glad I still have my old Palm 3C with serial i/f)



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Voytek

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