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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)