Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site weitek.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!pesnta!amd!amdcad!cae780!weitek!mmm From: mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson) Newsgroups: net.info-terms Subject: New Idea for RS-232 term.s Message-ID: <319@weitek.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 11:06:27 EST Article-I.D.: weitek.319 Posted: Tue Nov 5 11:06:27 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:25:15 EST Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca. Lines: 11 Keywords: RS-232, pins 2 and 3 Here's an idea I wish everybody would adopt. Very often at Weitek we get in the situation of needing to swap lines 2 and 3 on the D-25 connectors used with RS-232. This happens often enough that many of our cables have been modified to do this swap. As a result we also get in the position of having strung a cable that swaps to a terminal that needs 2 and 3 unswapped. What I want is a reversing switch. Just one simple cheap switch on the back of the terminal that would swap pins 2 and 3. Some of you out in net-land actually MAKE terminals. Could you please consider this on your next design? Mark Thorson (...!cae780!weitek!mmm)