On 2011/11/15 00:01 (GMT) Jim Henderson composed:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:00:39 -0500, doug wrote:
Don't throw it out. Some day you may acquire a plotter, or something like that, that still uses a serial interface.
If I'd kept all the electronics and cables that I'd had "in case I might need it some day", my basement would be full of old stuff, 386 desktops, 486 servers, SCSI hard drives, EISA controllers, etc. I had some old AST Rampage boards I had received back in 1988 "just in case" I might need them.
Need is inversely proportional to availability. My needs are modest, because I don't toss things that I might ever have a use for, particularly copper cables, which could some day be a form of currency. :-)
I would guess that if one were to acquire a device that needed a serial cable, one would still not be difficult to find.
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