this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
1156 points (98.4% liked)

People Twitter

5625 readers
947 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

  1. Mark NSFW content.
  2. No doxxing people.
  3. Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
  4. No bullying or international politcs
  5. Be excellent to each other.
  6. Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major figure or a politician.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
SendMeYourTaTas@sh.itjust.works
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
1156
trackpoint is f o r e v e r (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
150 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You do realise there is equipment being manufactured today that uses RS232?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes. Cold war era tech being manufactured today. You do realize there are plows being manufactured today that are intended to be drawn by oxen?

It was a tongue in cheek comment and you've already displayed elsewhere in the thread how much you know about RS232 but you couldn't let it slide.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We have brand new machines that use RS232 and RS485. We just did some configurating on one of them last week.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So do some fire panels, come to think of it. They use RS232 for programming, and either RS232 or RS485 for communication between modules.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yep. Coincidentally, part of that job involved a fire panel.

It falls under the KISS principal - and if it ain't broke, why fix it?

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Oh, definitely. There's a lot of products in the fire industry that haven't fundamentally changed since the 80s or 90s, maybe a few tweaks.