Re: Radio Shack?

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Alison wrote:
Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Alison wrote:
Paul Bunion <Roddy9@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I can't believe the looks I get lately when I want an electronic part
from Radio Shack.
You try going into PC-World and asking for a DB9 female to female gender
changer. I'm surprised the twat who I asked didn't call the police.
Now if
I'd asked for a big shiny laptop I'm sure they'd have been all over me
whilst drooling at their mouths and making snorting heavy breathing
noises.

There is no such thing. The proper name is DE-9:

"D" is the connector type.
"E" is the shell size.
"9" is the number of positions for pins, no matter how many are
installed.

People ASS U ME that if the 25 pin is a DB connector, so is the 9
pin.

I stand corrected. I'll start asking for DE9's with the person I'm having a
conversation with not having the slightest clue what I'm on about.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=50&hl=en&q=DB9+male&meta=

http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=50&hl=en&q=DE9+male&meta=

600k thousand hits for DB9. 22k thousand hits for DE9.

Truly I couldn't give a ***. Sorry.


And you complain when others don't know what you're asking for. You're part of the problem if you don't care. Those were designated as
DE-9 connectors decades before IBM went on the cheap side for a RS-232
connector. Everyone else was using the DB-25, with a full implementation
of signals.


I believe more folks would know it as DB-9 than the "correct" name!
.