[TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps

[William Pechter]

On 6/23/2019 9:12 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
>
> On 6/23/2019 8:56 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> Arthur's comments bring back some memories.  I probably still have this,
>> a ribbon serial cable with male and female connectors on both ends and
>> a breadboard in the middle.  I could hook anything to anything :)
>>
>> That said, I'm *ecstatic* that I no longer have to deal with serial 
>> ports.
>>
>
> I did a lot of work with RS232 in the 80's to the point where my 
> friend said I had coined a new phrase - basically sounds like 
> "Are-Ess-too-turdy-too" said really fast ;) (I'm from NY)
>
> From serial lines that were slow, going to parallel interfaces for 
> printers, parallel SCSI, and a few other parallel interfaces, I 
> thought were nice, now we've gone back to SATA, SAS and PCI-E lanes 
> that are basically serial interfaces.
>
> I have an RS232 breakout box I use for situations like this. Still 
> having to deal with DTE-DCE issues to this day with Cisco, 
> Nortel/Avaya, and other network, telecom or even SAN equipment. A 
> recent Dell Compellent SC7xxxx I installed came with a USB cable, but 
> it's really a USB to RS232 interface built into the controllers. SMH.
>
> ak
>
>
I'm still partial to having machines with real serial ports on 'em 
although I have all the USB serial/parallel cables as well.

Still have a couple of desktops with Real RS232 ports just in case.  My 
old K6-2 has both the 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch floppies -- just in case.


Bill