RS-232 and all the weird and wonderful mostly passive adapters... (mostly caused by the fact that connectors on IBM PC have the logical, but opposite from every

RS-232 and all the weird and wonderful mostly passive adapters... (mostly caused by the fact that connectors on IBM PC have the logical, but opposite from everything else, gender) Just this weekend we did a cleanup of our office and thrown away everything that looked like RS232 cable with the rationale that it is faster and cheaper to make/buy new one than trying to figure out which of the myriad variants this one is.