Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:41:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, tlambert@primenet.com, jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org, jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vt420 terminal Message-ID: <199709252141.OAA01381@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199709252058.OAA17928@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Sep 25, 97 02:58:08 pm
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> : Come on, we tremendously boost the sales of all sorts of weird adapters ;-) > > Actually, being around at the time they were introduced (yow, has it > really been 15 years) they were saying at the time the offset tab was > to prevent you from plugging phones onto data ports and data cables > into phone ports. Or using cheap off-the-shelf phone parts for data ports. ;-). I never met one person who went to plug their RS232 into a phone jack, was stopped by the tab, and muttered to themselves "Oh... yeah.". 8-) 8-). I hope the person who came up with "make the outlets orange" got a bigger bonus than the person who came up with "move the locking tab"... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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