i actually liked working with rs232 back in the early 80s. give me my trusty breakout box, a soldering iron, my own hand-crafted terminal emulator and i was hap

i actually liked working with rs232 back in the early 80s. give me my trusty breakout box, a soldering iron, my own hand-crafted terminal emulator and i was happy as larry. it was really hard to do anything destructively wrong - at worst the thing just wouldn't work. certainly a lot easier to deal with than things are today, should something go wrong.