Hard drive cable question -

[James Kosin]

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Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> Well, Recommended Standard 232 was one of those which had
> much more in it than most people needed, so a lot of the
> pins got hijacked. It was the Standard people loved to
> violate. A disc drive interface is (1) less generally
> useful and (2) less amenable to hijacking for other
> purposes.
> 
> Mike

Over reading many specs, I've found that they are to be used as
guidelines more than definitive absolutes.

Some manufacturers take the definitions literally, and some take a more
liberal approach to the specifications.

- -James
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