Wiki:Plug socket

[S Viemeister]

I've heard 'outlet' used at least as often as 'receptacle'.

[Robin]

Didn't IBM refer to them as "hermaphrodite"?

[Bob Eager]

I mentioned that...with a link to a picture for those who've never seen one!

[Bob Eager]

Yes.

[John Rumm]

At the PC end its exactly the same - in the sense both are D connectors.

or 25 pin in some cases.

Indeed, but I can't see what difference it makes. DTEs (i.e. the computer) traditionally get the male end... hence the female "socket" is on the lead not the device.

[NT]

... Sounds good to me.

NT

[thirty-six]

A broadcast engineer I worked with called them his freakies.

[Tim Streater]

What, faxes? Just get a combined printer/fax/copier/scanner.

The correct terms are male and female where RS232 is concerned.

[Tim Streater]

Well it should do, but it rarely did IME. I always carried a small collection of gender-benders, null modems and the like, just in case. Luckily it was fairly rare to need to actually connect my iBook to any of our routers.

[Tim Streater]

None at all to me, now :-)

One of the nice things about retiring was no longer having to worry about sodding RS232.

Until to fiddle around with I bought a 68000 SBC with - yes! - two 9-pin serial ports.

[John Rumm]

Well you know what they said about 232 being the number of combinations of wiring 3 wires onto a 25 pin plug!

;-)

Old McDonald had a computer....

....with EIA IO

[Plusnet]

Plocket is much easier to spell.

[Owain]

Sometimes I like to be spontaneous and not read to the end of a thread before replying :-)

Owain