OT: Is RS-232 ever coming back?

DerbyDad03 · 2012-07-29T18:49:39+00:00

The wall wort for my router died this morning. While I was looking for areplacement in my stash of 30+ wall worts that have piled up over theyears, I had to sift through a bunch of RS-232 related items. I've got RS-232 cables, 25 to 9 pin adaptors, 25 pin gender changers, andeven a Smart Cable with switches and LEDs that we used at work to help usfigure out how to configure a cable to get 2 devices talking to each other.Do you think it's safe to throw this stuff out? I know that RS-232 is stillused in some industrial environments, but it isn't going to make a comeback in the personal computer world anytime soon, is it?Nostalgia is a strange bird.

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The Daring Dufas 14 years ago

Friday I was working on some new Cisco large screen televisions at a clothing store and the brand new TV's had DB9 RS-232 connectors with a cable that has a mini stereo plug on one end to plug into a jack on the digital media servers. RS-232 lives on. ^_^

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