Re: hardware question, a little off-topic

From: Lisias A. Toledo (lisias@unforgettable.com)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 07:34:05 CEST


HTom4722@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 8/30/00 12:25:23 PM Central Daylight Time, vessu@dlc.fi
> writes:
>
> > > There is one which is a female with 7 + 8 holes, and ressemble a normal
> > > parallel port.
> > > The other strange thing is a normal parallel port, but male. What is it
> > > for ?
>
> The first: serial port? CGA? RGB? TTL video? cassette tape?
>
> The second: serial? printer? floppy? SCSI?
>
> Just guessing. Some of these are really old; male/female was not always
> "correct" on early boxes (let's not start the argument about whether today's
> "standard" is correct, please!)

A good way to hanlde this is looking the boards. Maybe I can help you if you send pictures to me. I worked with these machines some time ago, and I can identify most of these boards.

Maybe I can identify the boards by the numbers on the main chips.

-- 
 []s,
        Pink                     ------------------------------------
   (Lisias Toledo)              |       ECHELON AT MY BALLS !!       |
Manaus/Amazonas/Brasil          | Will My Freedom Be Forever Denied? | 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------
    /"\  CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML
    \ /  ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL
     X
    / \  Movimento Pró-acentuação:
   /   \ Use "MIME, quoted-printable, ISO-8859-1" em seu e-mailer.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: mulinux-unsubscribe@sunsite.auc.dk
For additional commands, e-mail: mulinux-help@sunsite.auc.dk


This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Sat Feb 08 2003 - 15:27:15 CET