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) -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
