From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 13:57:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA13011 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 13:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA13003 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 13:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xEKyi-0003FP-00; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:57:40 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.7/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA17928; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:58:08 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709252058.OAA17928@harmony.village.org> To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: vt420 terminal Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org, jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:23:05 +0200." <199709251923.VAA02208@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <199709251923.VAA02208@yedi.iaf.nl> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:58:08 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : Which is called the MMJ (modified MJ) : To be found in DECconnect office cabling (among others) : > This change to the locking tab was made for: "no good reason". : 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. Warner