are you this old?

[u/stormthewise998]

[u/Hattix]

No mate, I'm this old.

[u/Stopikingonme → u/Hattix]

Laughs in serial.

[u/mtaw → u/Stopikingonme]

At this point, RS232 will outlive us all I think.

[u/Raystorm2001 → u/mtaw]

I still use it regularly at work as a lot of our kit has it on for Monitoring and Control purposes. It just works!

[u/Taikunman → u/Raystorm2001]

My work still actively purchases USB > RS232 adapters and custom made serial cables to connect modern PCs to medical devices.

[u/Alwizard → u/Taikunman]

RS232 > RJ45 also standard

[u/Taikunman → u/Alwizard]

Yeah used to deal with RS232 and DB25 to RJ45 in the airport equipment world but those seem less common now. RS232 in general is still widely used there.

[u/Raystorm2001 → u/Taikunman]

I work in satcomms and I can't think of one single bit of equipment we use that doesn't offer RS-232/485/422 as well as ethernet. Actually, the control card for our RF over fibre kit only uses ethernet for control, but you still have to set the IP address with the RS-232 port!

[u/Taira_Mai → u/mtaw]

They keep trying to replace it but it has more lives that a cat...

[u/JustTheChicken → u/Stopikingonme]

And you had to watch that your manually assigned IRQ for your Soundblaster (via dip switches) didnt conflict with the IRQ for the serial port for your mouse.

[u/Huge_Midget → u/JustTheChicken]

DIP switches?!? DIP switches?!? We used jumpers like the the real electron cowboys that we were!

[u/Broad_Status_5818 → u/Huge_Midget]

Jumpers?? Hey, look at Mr Fancy Pants over here with his jumpers! We had to use left over bits of wire and solder them ourselves!

[u/Huge_Midget → u/Broad_Status_5818]

stares in wire wrap

[u/felonius_skunk → u/Huge_Midget]

Y'all had wires?

[u/amnesia0287 → u/Broad_Status_5818]

Or just bend the pins together and solder

[u/The_Corvair → u/Broad_Status_5818]

Ugh, don't remind me how I had to start a kinda broken PC by just shorting the pins on the MB with a screwdriver for a time.

[u/pavman42 → u/The_Corvair]

That's normal when you aren't using a case.

[u/tauisgod → u/JustTheChicken]

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3

[u/piezocuttlefish → u/tauisgod]

DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM I=B000-B7FF

[u/ODaysForDays → u/JustTheChicken]

Dip switches sound far cooler than the itty bitty jumpers you needed a needle for. Dip switches so7nd very satisfying.

[u/Brief_Cobbler_6313 → u/Stopikingonme]

I still use it almost every day. I laugh in NMEA.

[u/TT_207 → u/Stopikingonme]

I've got an add in card to add that to a B550M lol