[conspire] EIA RS-232-C, ... Re: DE-9, not DB-9 (was: ...

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Texx (texxgadget at gmail.com):

> Several things:
> 
> I will admit to confusion about DE.

All you need know about DE-9 is that product packaging will reliably
and consistently say 'DB-9'.

> I still have a current loop teletype.

D00d!  Maybe I can finally find out what's on my punched paper tapes
left over from the '70s.  (It's probably stuff like David Ahl's port of
LUNAR to HP Time-Shared BASIC.[1])

> The other reason is that history repeats itself.

                'History never repeats itself, but it rhymes.'
                                     -- John Robert Colombo

(https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/)

[1] https://github.com/fortran-gaming/lunar-lander-1969