Subject: Re: FYI: Message on both Berkeley SETI web sites
From: Martin 53N 1W
Date: 07/03/2005, 00:41
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti,sci.astro.seti,alt.religion.jiffyism

reverend maxwell snort wrote:
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:55:36 +0000, SoT wrote:

[...]

yes; ups's typically use a non-standard cable to attach to the serial
port. available only from the manufacturer.  won't adapt to USB.

Worse still, some UPS's use the serial port in a non-standard pseudo-parallel port way to play tricks. This requires the manufacturer's proprietary driver and direct access to the port for it to work.

Silly stuff.

Regards,
Martin


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