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		rubidium 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables I hope you never have to work with serial D9 cables. The variation of pinouts for legacy equipment is massive! Pretty sure every theoretical variation became some standard.
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exe34 6 days ago [–]

Hah there was one on the 8088 I was allowed to play with as a child, but I only used the parallel port to switch on/off a motor via a relay.

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