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minus-squareJerkface (any/all)linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoAnd how cool would you look carrying your laptop like an attache case, with dongles and wires hanging off it? No thank you. If I need to interface with cold war era serial hardware, this is the way I’m going to do it.
minus-square@Ilovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•1 month agoYou do realise there is equipment being manufactured today that uses RS232?
minus-square@lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoWe have brand new machines that use RS232 and RS485. We just did some configurating on one of them last week.
minus-square@Ilovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•1 month agoSo do some fire panels, come to think of it. They use RS232 for programming, and either RS232 or RS485 for communication between modules.
minus-square@lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 month agoYep. Coincidentally, part of that job involved a fire panel. It falls under the KISS principal - and if it ain’t broke, why fix it?
minus-square@Ilovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•1 month agoOh, definitely. There’s a lot of products in the fire industry that haven’t fundamentally changed since the 80s or 90s, maybe a few tweaks.
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 month agoYes. Cold war era tech being manufactured today. You do realize there are plows being manufactured today that are intended to be drawn by oxen? It was a tongue in cheek comment and you’ve already displayed elsewhere in the thread how much you know about RS232 but you couldn’t let it slide.
And how cool would you look carrying your laptop like an attache case, with dongles and wires hanging off it? No thank you. If I need to interface with cold war era serial hardware, this is the way I’m going to do it.
You do realise there is equipment being manufactured today that uses RS232?
We have brand new machines that use RS232 and RS485. We just did some configurating on one of them last week.
So do some fire panels, come to think of it. They use RS232 for programming, and either RS232 or RS485 for communication between modules.
Yep. Coincidentally, part of that job involved a fire panel.
It falls under the KISS principal - and if it ain’t broke, why fix it?
Oh, definitely. There’s a lot of products in the fire industry that haven’t fundamentally changed since the 80s or 90s, maybe a few tweaks.
Yes. Cold war era tech being manufactured today. You do realize there are plows being manufactured today that are intended to be drawn by oxen?
It was a tongue in cheek comment and you’ve already displayed elsewhere in the thread how much you know about RS232 but you couldn’t let it slide.