[tech] Re: Door Works

[James Andrewartha]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, David Manchester wrote:

> > Door is currently working thanks to the efforts of Mark. It involes an
> > Eric. Do not touch it or you will lose bodily extremities.
> 
> Which means that we need an appropriate cable made to rescue the Eric.
> What would an appropriate cable look like?

Apparently the Eric was needed to place a load on the serial port. Cue
Mark ranting about poor quality PC serial ports.

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