From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-27 14:48:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:48:28 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:48:48 -0500 From: Wesley Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [off-topic] electronic mismatch References: <3E5C7033.BD5DC462@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0302260618.7506cba7@posting.google.com> <3E5CF5C6.84822F57@adaworks.com> <8qkczsAcGcn+Ew83@nildram.co.uk> <3EA04A1E.CAFC1FEF@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0304260644.764b8674@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.117.18.112 X-Trace: sv3-EAKuza4W0E1CnmCQPkL6q/k3Wq5B3MUGrVTafRCWRAzYgWgPfZK8DjeTin+/+CKKzC6YuWF+wud9bYG!kJI6bQQBECP4AYQJvsv1xsUW5nsS0cEJ+7Ys4SZDVWyc+xdxHUaOSS5DMUEEW9hwxcpFBrVu30LX!LPyYHw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:62799 comp.lang.ada:36668 Date: 2003-04-27T16:48:48-05:00 List-Id: > Imagine having 100 different electronics devices, all which have 30 pin > ribbon cable connections. Some of the devices have different pinouts, and > connecting two devices with different pinouts can either cause damage to the > devices or cause the devices to malfunction. I gave someone a Macintosh Quadra and told them how to start it up. Instead, they called someone else, who brought over a Windows boot floppy and a printer. Plugged the printer into the external hard drive port and put Windows 95 in the floppy drive, and turned on the power. Of course it wouldn't do anything, so they stuck it out in the cabin. After it went through a winter in the unheated cabin, I rescued it and took it home. It still works! It still pukes every time it sees a floppy disk, but the SCSI bus was not damaged. :-)