Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1786 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Henderson wrote:

> 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.
>
> I would guess that if one were to acquire a device that needed a
> serial cable, one would still not be difficult to find.

Any machine you would want to hook up a serial console to :-)  Although
the cable in question would not be really useful for that - maybe as an
extension.


-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (3.8°C)

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