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rubidium 40 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

I hope you never have to work with serial D9 cables. The variation of pinouts for legacy equipment is massive! Pretty sure every theoretical variation became some standard.

exe34 40 days ago [–]

Hah there was one on the 8088 I was allowed to play with as a child, but I only used the parallel port to switch on/off a motor via a relay.

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