[geeks] Suggestions for USB to serial adapter?

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, der Mouse wrote:

>> If you have a wire stripper and snips, any cable can terminate in
>> bare wires.
>
> Nice theory; not so nice in practice.  I've seen cables whose "wires"
> have insufficient physical strength to make that practical - cases like
> this usually have some mechanically _very_ light conductors wrapped
> around something nonconductive but (comparatively) physically strong.

A cable that degenerate ought to be thrown away anyhow.  I've never seen
any such thing.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
Elgin, TX
USA