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Hmm, I dunno: https://www.eltima.com/article/9-pin-serial-port.html https://www.eltima.com/article/9-pin-serial-port.html We had DB9 and DB25 offices. Eventu
by helpfulContrib 3y ago
Hmm, I dunno:
https://www.eltima.com/article/9-pin-serial-port.html https://www.eltima.com/article/9-pin-serial-port.html
We had DB9 and DB25 offices. Eventually it all became Ethernet, and the coax era began ..
- gumby 3y agoThe very first sentence of that link says just what I said: "The RS232C DE-9, often mistakenly referred to as a DB-9..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature If you were doing this during the Ethernet transition (to thinnet) you probably remember the AUIs also had DE connectors though I don't remember how many pins -- perhaps a dozen.
- helpfulContrib 3y agoYeah, I totally grok the fastidious corrective path upon which you sit, its just .. as a person .. I know absolutely nobody who used the proper terminology for these things, we'd also often just call them a "9'er" (DE9) or a "chunky" (DB25), which could be a cunt or a fuck, depending on sex. Especially, rather late at night, deeply embedded in the A/C ducts and 'services tunnels' of the various hospitals, skyscrapers and other locations of this particular company, for whom I rashed my knuckles, bent my noggin', thrashed the chiclets and hacked mad code for long enough to know, that as long as someone else knows what you mean, it doesn't matter what word you use... as long as they fucking don't drop the thing into the abyss before you can embed burn tracks in your flesh and get it secured in place, to be left for the next damn junior fool who dons the overalls and climbs into the hell of it all, to upgrade things.