Is RS-232 ever coming back?
 

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:05:14 -0400, Metspitzer
wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:02:43 -0400, "Dan Cathy"
dan@gay-chicken-weddings wrote:


"DerbyDad03" wrote in message ...
The wall wort for my router died this morning. While I was looking for a
replacement in my stash of 30+ wall worts that have piled up over the
years, I had to sift through a bunch of RS-232 related items.

I've got RS-232 cables, 25 to 9 pin adaptors, 25 pin gender changers, and
even a Smart Cable with switches and LEDs that we used at work to help us
figure out how to configure a cable to get 2 devices talking to each other.

Do you think it's safe to throw this stuff out? I know that RS-232 is still
used in some industrial environments, but it isn't going to make a come
back in the personal computer world anytime soon, is it?

Nostalgia is a strange bird.

Apparently you don't practice 5S at home? ;-)

They are never going to use them again, but I have a large pile of
them I can't throw out either. The two computers I just checked don't
even have a 25 pin port.
Most don't even have a 9 pin RS232 or a 25 pin parallel port.
The flavour of the day is USB on personal computers, with some Serial
Attached Scsi (SAS) on workstation and server apps.

Is RS-232 ever coming back?
 

On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:54:00 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:05:14 -0400, Metspitzer
wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:02:43 -0400, "Dan Cathy"
dan@gay-chicken-weddings wrote:


"DerbyDad03" wrote in message ...
The wall wort for my router died this morning. While I was looking for a
replacement in my stash of 30+ wall worts that have piled up over the
years, I had to sift through a bunch of RS-232 related items.

I've got RS-232 cables, 25 to 9 pin adaptors, 25 pin gender changers, and
even a Smart Cable with switches and LEDs that we used at work to help us
figure out how to configure a cable to get 2 devices talking to each other.

Do you think it's safe to throw this stuff out? I know that RS-232 is still
used in some industrial environments, but it isn't going to make a come
back in the personal computer world anytime soon, is it?

Nostalgia is a strange bird.

Apparently you don't practice 5S at home? ;-)

They are never going to use them again, but I have a large pile of
them I can't throw out either. The two computers I just checked don't
even have a 25 pin port.
Most don't even have a 9 pin RS232 or a 25 pin parallel port.
The flavour of the day is USB on personal computers, with some Serial
Attached Scsi (SAS) on workstation and server apps.

I can't throw the cables out, but I did make a special drawer for
stuff I know I will never need anymore. SCSI IDE and floppy cables. I
also threw in some other cables I don't even remember what they were
used for. There was some S-video stuff and I put most of my phone
cords. The phones I use now are cordless. I have two bases and four
extensions. Both of the bases are plugged into UPSs so we can still
use them if the power goes out.

Is RS-232 ever coming back?
 

On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:54:00 -0400, clare wrote:
They are never going to use them again, but I have a large pile of them
I can't throw out either. The two computers I just checked don't even
have a 25 pin port.
Most don't even have a 9 pin RS232 or a 25 pin parallel port.
The flavour of the day is USB on personal computers, with some Serial
Attached Scsi (SAS) on workstation and server apps.

My elderly IC programmer/reader still uses RS-232 for data transfer to
the host machine, and I've used RS-232 a few times for data recovery work
in recent years where it's easier to hook vintage hardware up to a more
modern PC via serial than it is to access old media directly on the PC.
I've got a handful of "modern-ish" PCs stockpiled which have serial (and
parallel) ports on them.

I've never been a big fan of USB - it's just too quirky and over-
complicated for anything that doesn't *need* a high transfer speed.

Sadly it's getting hard to find a lot of this kind of stuff these days :(

cheers

Jules

Is RS-232 ever coming back?
 

On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:54:00 -0400, clare wrote:
They are never going to use them again, but I have a large pile of them
I can't throw out either. The two computers I just checked don't even
have a 25 pin port.
Most don't even have a 9 pin RS232 or a 25 pin parallel port.
The flavour of the day is USB on personal computers, with some Serial
Attached Scsi (SAS) on workstation and server apps.

My elderly IC programmer/reader still uses RS-232 for data transfer to
the host machine, and I've used RS-232 a few times for data recovery work
in recent years where it's easier to hook vintage hardware up to a more
modern PC via serial than it is to access old media directly on the PC.
I've got a handful of "modern-ish" PCs stockpiled which have serial (and
parallel) ports on them.

I've never been a big fan of USB - it's just too quirky and over-
complicated for anything that doesn't *need* a high transfer speed.

Sadly it's getting hard to find a lot of this kind of stuff these days :(

cheers

Jules