From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 14:42:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA15579 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr04.primenet.com (tlambert@usr04.primenet.com [206.165.6.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA15572 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA01381; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:41:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709252141.OAA01381@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: vt420 terminal To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:41:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, tlambert@primenet.com, jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org, jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199709252058.OAA17928@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Sep 25, 97 02:58:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > : 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.