[geeks] Suggestions for USB to serial adapter?

[Lionel Peterson]

On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net>  
wrote:

> 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.

I have, cheap phone/RJ11 cords... They have more of a PCB trace than  
an actual 'wire'.

Lionel