@swhall05 Way back in the stone age, a fellow SW developer was in charge of writing the driver for SCSI devices. He quickly became known as “Scuzzy Bob”. To his credit, he owned it.
Trivia: SASI predated SCSI and was pronounced “Sassy”. And yes, Scuzzy Bob had previously been Sassy Bob.
@DVDBZN@heartny Fortunately (or not!) Meh still sells things with mini-USB. The expensive Sonicare toothbrush sold last week is apparently a current model, yet it uses mini-USB for charging (not micro, or USB-C which many complained about.).
@phendrick Yeah I am that old. Believe it or not, we built a semi-auto parts carousel using a Commodore 64 with a CP/M interface cartridge (couldn’t afford an Apple 2). We remade it with a PC using RS-232 2 years later.
@caffeineguy I could make the argument that common usage has made it an accepted term for the port in question (you knew what I meant, after all), but instead, I think I’m just gonna go with “phbbbbbbt.”
RS232. Also Atari SIO. It was like an early precursor to USB from the late 70’s. (Serial where each step in the chain would forward messages further down the line if it was for something else.)
I’m.thinking that flight of yours from Hawaii to Australia wasn’t your most fun flight ever.
I also got sunburnt on that beach and got sand in my clothes and then had to get onboard a flight to Asia (we were originally told to expect a far longer delay, so I had thought I’d have time to change clothes).
My flight was no doubt better than yours tho. Was on a Charter flight. Back in the days when lighting up was allowed.
Lots of weed on board (from other passengers, not from me) that would need to be used up or ditched before disembarking.
Hmmmm. I wonder what happened to all that flightboard weed?
Hmmmm.
@ybmuG Until last year I used an Okidata dot matrix printer for invoice and statement printing, 1099s, W2s and such. Of course I had to dig up a serial to parallel bridge. Then serial ports became obsolete and I had to dig up a USB to parallel bridge if I wanted to keep using the old Okidata. I finally got to the bottom of the pallet of NCR invoice forms and retired the pin printer. I’m confident that old printer had squeezed through more than 40,000 pages in its lifetime because that’s how many of those NCR invoices I bought.
@ruouttaurmind@ybmuG Hmm are you sure that the actual lesson learned here isn’t about ports and jury rigs, rather it’s that you ordered way the hell too many NCR invoices some 20-25 years ago? (grin).
@ruouttaurmind LOL Watch out for that just in time inventory though if you switch to that model rather than you own a warehouse model you had with your 10 cases. You might run out (grin).
I read recently that some grocery stores are rethinking that model too.
@phendrick@ThunderChicken They are still in common use. I use them all them time. Among other things, they’re still the standard for input channels on oscilloscopes.
Idk, I still have all the ports that are still in use. I guess it would be nice to have a VGA port on my monitor, y’know, for backup in case the other two ports or cables aren’t available for whatever reason.
@blaineg@craigthom If you’re using Tera Term for your serial communication then all the COM ports will be available in a drop-down in it. That’s what I use.
@craigthom So many of them. I’ve got single, quad, 8, and even 16 port USB-Serial adapters here. Many of the test computers have 4 serial port PCIe cards installed in them.
@craigthom Having the Com port is only half the battle, if it’s not assigned to the “right” device, things aren’t going to work. USB-Serial adapters that have Com port retention are a wonderful thing.
@CharlieXray@Kidsandliz@Kyeh This sounds like what my colleague is going through. Every few weeks he will have to go in for another round of treatment. For as long as his body continues to react to the medicine. He’ll be doing this the rest of his days unless a cure is found.
@CharlieXray@danlo@Kyeh At the moment I am on watch and wait in a large part due to the pandemic. In my case it is a blood cancer with a longer life span so in that respect I am lucky.
I just wanna say, I miss SCSI, for various reasons (maybe mostly illogical, but back in the day it was the way to hook up some stuff to run fast), but I decidedly do NOT miss most of the others: your serials, your parallels, your PS2s, your shit-ton of flaky proprietary bullshit ports and miscellany of bullshit dongles and whatnot. Fuck all of that dumbfuckery.
@joelmw You can still use SAS drives! Not the same port footprint (and really, not daisy-chainable at node level), but it’s still in the name, so there’s that!
Separate PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports. It prevented you from having the agonizing decision of which USB port to plug them into - every peripheral had it’s own home.
@harder I use these on our servers for when local access is needed, because we have a legacy 16-channel KVM, and these are FAR cheaper than buying a modern KVM of similar capacity.
Though admittedly, remote technologies like iDRAC and iLO mean I almost never have to use the KVM anymore.
None. Get rid of all the ports.
S-Video.
@Zeusandhera Haha!
SCSI (pronounced “scuzzy”). You aint lived until you terminated a SCSI chain.
@squishybrain
/giphy ritual sacrifice
@squishybrain Mmmmmmmm…Small Computer System Inerface
@squishybrain Oh yeah. I had forgotten about having to do that back in the day.
@squishybrain especially the ones that looked like giant printer ports. Good times.
SAS takes all the fun out of it
@squishybrain
/giphy nerd cred
@joelmw I had both of those computers although all of my SCSI experience was on the love of my life, my Commodore Amiga
@joelmw @squishybrain I still have an A3000 to trip over, and an A500 in the shed.
@squishybrain
So you’re saying I’ve had multiple past lives?
SCSI.
Because who doesn’t like to say scuzzy?
/giphy scuzzy
@swhall05 Apparently she doesn’t like to say it.
@swhall05 Way back in the stone age, a fellow SW developer was in charge of writing the driver for SCSI devices. He quickly became known as “Scuzzy Bob”. To his credit, he owned it.
Trivia: SASI predated SCSI and was pronounced “Sassy”. And yes, Scuzzy Bob had previously been Sassy Bob.
Vagina.
@yakkoTDI There are plenty available. Maybe you just aren’t looking in the right places.
@yakkoTDI Some people are uncomfortable with the word.
Why? It’s the actual and proper word.
@craigthom @yakkoTDI Perhaps his joystick is incompatible.
@craigthom @macromeh I know where to look but I keep finding they are already in use or way to new for my old hardware.
@craigthom @macromeh @yakkoTDI Well at least if it’s old hardware I’m sure there might be some willing participants. Old software, not sure…
Headphone jack
@cengland0 Definitely!
VHDCI SCSI connector.
USB is a crappy commoditized version of ADB. Its better now but meh.
Ethernet, comes in handy in a few different situations.
@daveinwarsh Now we’re talkin’
@daveinwarsh @pmarin came to say “tawny”, but figured I’d be a little late. Kudos
Mini USB
@heartny
No! Don’t jinx it! Burn MiniUSB with fire!
@DVDBZN @heartny Fortunately (or not!) Meh still sells things with mini-USB. The expensive Sonicare toothbrush sold last week is apparently a current model, yet it uses mini-USB for charging (not micro, or USB-C which many complained about.).
@pmarin
At least now I know which product I’m not getting.
CP/M
@cranky1950
When was that last ported? (OMG, you must be as old as I.)
@cranky1950 @phendrick Kaypro 4 4-eva!
@phendrick Yeah I am that old. Believe it or not, we built a semi-auto parts carousel using a Commodore 64 with a CP/M interface cartridge (couldn’t afford an Apple 2). We remade it with a PC using RS-232 2 years later.
DB-9 joystick ports.
/image commodore joystick
@dannybeans If you have to do testing on products under development, odds are good you need DB-9 pretty regularly.
@dannybeans @tweezak Aston Martin DB-9 is fair compensation.
@dannybeans There is no such thing as DB9. DE-9 the typical 9-pin serial port
@caffeineguy I could make the argument that common usage has made it an accepted term for the port in question (you knew what I meant, after all), but instead, I think I’m just gonna go with “phbbbbbbt.”
@caffeineguy @dannybeans Spot the pedant.
@dannybeans @ThunderChicken @tweezak But Aston-Martin is HDMI, not DB9.
There’s a port on a western bay
And it serves a hundred ships a day
Lonely sailors pass the time away
And talk about their homes
@stolicat Now you’ve got that song stuck in my head.
@stolicat
Starboard. No, aft! Main…mizzen?
Who the fuck decided to use current loop on this DB-9?
The PS2 Mouse and Keyboard ports.
@hchavers I still use them.
RS232. Also Atari SIO. It was like an early precursor to USB from the late 70’s. (Serial where each step in the chain would forward messages further down the line if it was for something else.)
@kazriko SIO was awesome.
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
Port Waikiki/Honolulu
@f00l the one time I surfed was around there somewhere. We stayed at the Royal Hawaiian for a couple of days on the way to Australia.
I got the worst sunburn of my life and then took a nine hour flight to Sydney.
@craigthom
I’m.thinking that flight of yours from Hawaii to Australia wasn’t your most fun flight ever.
I also got sunburnt on that beach and got sand in my clothes and then had to get onboard a flight to Asia (we were originally told to expect a far longer delay, so I had thought I’d have time to change clothes).
My flight was no doubt better than yours tho. Was on a Charter flight. Back in the days when lighting up was allowed.
Lots of weed on board (from other passengers, not from me) that would need to be used up or ditched before disembarking.
Hmmmm. I wonder what happened to all that flightboard weed?
Hmmmm.
George Town, Grand Cayman. @f00l you just beat me to the first ship port.
Centronics port, aka parallel port, aka bi-directional communication port.
/image centronics port
@ruouttaurmind I don’t miss these at all.
@Fuzzalini @ruouttaurmind I just recently had to buy a cable like this. Some things never die.
@ybmuG Until last year I used an Okidata dot matrix printer for invoice and statement printing, 1099s, W2s and such. Of course I had to dig up a serial to parallel bridge. Then serial ports became obsolete and I had to dig up a USB to parallel bridge if I wanted to keep using the old Okidata. I finally got to the bottom of the pallet of NCR invoice forms and retired the pin printer. I’m confident that old printer had squeezed through more than 40,000 pages in its lifetime because that’s how many of those NCR invoices I bought.
@ruouttaurmind @ybmuG Hmm are you sure that the actual lesson learned here isn’t about ports and jury rigs, rather it’s that you ordered way the hell too many NCR invoices some 20-25 years ago? (grin).
@ruouttaurmind just ditched an old panasonic KX…I still have way too much crap…
@Kidsandliz The takeaway for me was to pay attention. 10 boxes. BOXES! Not 10 cases.
@ruouttaurmind LOL Watch out for that just in time inventory though if you switch to that model rather than you own a warehouse model you had with your 10 cases. You might run out (grin).
I read recently that some grocery stores are rethinking that model too.
BNC
@ThunderChicken When I was in the Air Force, I saw these connectors on equipment that was surplus (and bordering on obsolete) 50 years ago…
@phendrick @ThunderChicken They are still in common use. I use them all them time. Among other things, they’re still the standard for input channels on oscilloscopes.
The port in a storm. Doesn’t matter which one, any will do.
@Durago TWSS
Idk, I still have all the ports that are still in use. I guess it would be nice to have a VGA port on my monitor, y’know, for backup in case the other two ports or cables aren’t available for whatever reason.
Cartagena. The one in Spain. Accept no substitutes.
Air
HP-IB.
@craigthom I haven’t heard it called that, instead of GPIB, in a long time.
@craigthom I bought a couple of these a few weeks ago, $600 each.
@blaineg I was working on HP equipment almost 30 years ago, and that’s where I saw them. Old stuff.
…ly women
Serial port, I need it almost every day for talking to equipment.
@blaineg how many USB to RS232 adapters have you gone through?
And is there an easier way than opening Device Manager to figure out which COM port Windows assigned this time?
@blaineg @craigthom If you’re using Tera Term for your serial communication then all the COM ports will be available in a drop-down in it. That’s what I use.
@blaineg Yeah, probably serial for me too. My old Cisco console cables aren’t as easily usable when I also need a USB to RS232 adapter.
@craigthom So many of them. I’ve got single, quad, 8, and even 16 port USB-Serial adapters here. Many of the test computers have 4 serial port PCIe cards installed in them.
@craigthom I’m stuck with the Device Manager, that and a loopback connector are what I use to verify and fix Com port assignments.
I’ve only recently found the Win-X, M shortcut for the Device Manager.
I’ve used TeraTerm, but I like PuTTY better.
@craigthom Having the Com port is only half the battle, if it’s not assigned to the “right” device, things aren’t going to work. USB-Serial adapters that have Com port retention are a wonderful thing.
@blaineg
@blaineg putty made me memorize baud rates.
@macromeh I love it. And I’m stealing it!
/image Tortola port
SCSI
Wish I could say chemo port but I still have that in. LOL
Oh wait - that would be the port I wouldn’t miss at all.
@Kidsandliz
It’s good you can joke about it. Stay strong. I’m wishing well in your struggle.
@CharlieXray @Kidsandliz Me too.
@CharlieXray @Kyeh Thanks. Unfortunately I’ll never get to have it taken out unless they find a cure for the one cancer.
@CharlieXray @Kidsandliz
I’m sorry! We can hope …
@CharlieXray @Kidsandliz @Kyeh This sounds like what my colleague is going through. Every few weeks he will have to go in for another round of treatment. For as long as his body continues to react to the medicine. He’ll be doing this the rest of his days unless a cure is found.
@CharlieXray @danlo @Kyeh At the moment I am on watch and wait in a large part due to the pandemic. In my case it is a blood cancer with a longer life span so in that respect I am lucky.
I just wanna say, I miss SCSI, for various reasons (maybe mostly illogical, but back in the day it was the way to hook up some stuff to run fast), but I decidedly do NOT miss most of the others: your serials, your parallels, your PS2s, your shit-ton of flaky proprietary bullshit ports and miscellany of bullshit dongles and whatnot. Fuck all of that dumbfuckery.
/giphy fuck that shit
@joelmw You can still use SAS drives! Not the same port footprint (and really, not daisy-chainable at node level), but it’s still in the name, so there’s that!
Portwenn
Separate PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports. It prevented you from having the agonizing decision of which USB port to plug them into - every peripheral had it’s own home.
@harder I’m surprised that I can still buy motherboards with PS/2 ports.
@harder Get a singe-USB adapter like this one: USB => PS/2. Problem mitigated!
@harder I use these on our servers for when local access is needed, because we have a legacy 16-channel KVM, and these are FAR cheaper than buying a modern KVM of similar capacity.
Though admittedly, remote technologies like iDRAC and iLO mean I almost never have to use the KVM anymore.
St. Aubin’s
That small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port on the Death Star. I always miss it.
@rockblossom
/giphy Death Star use the force, Luke
Barcelona
3.5mm audio Jack.
@Chronicle Yes there is something to be said for that one!