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respice finem
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Though I always support cyclists wearing a helmet, in this instance I’d suggest they wear a PFD as well!
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Not if we had a cable from a reputable manufacturer - they were keyed so you couldn't put them in upside down. And by the time of that picture (note the narrow pitch cable with guard wires between the signal ones to allow for higher speeds) colour coded for which connector was for master, slave and motherboard (unlike the one in the picture...) Non-technical users might have had reason to worry whether they'd set the jumpers correctly, especially if it arrived without documentation (because you bought the cheaper OEM version not the retail one.)
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Who on ASR is old enough to remember the joy of configuring serial (printer) cards by toggling DIP switches and soldering D-9 connectors to cables to get your dot matrix printer to do something?
Show of hands please.
I'm old enough to remember soldering custom DB25 to DB9 adapters in a hurry because air defense = national security suddenly demanded a weird legacy gear connection. At least it worked the first time.
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They look like gold to me. In the Baltimore area the combined price is likely north of $10.
Seeing and believing are separate things. Other than catching crabs with a rope, $2 worth of chicken necks, a net and a little time as a kid for free, I well remember paying $13 for a bushel of prime, live Jimmys. The last time I went to a restaurant on the Eastern Shore of Maryland they told me they wanted $60 for 12 medium crabs, I nearly had a heart attack. Needless to say, I didn’t pick crabs for dinner that evening.)
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You can catch crabs for free with a pail and a string.
Go down by the rocks, find a muscle, break it open, tie a string around it, lower it between big rocks (a jetty in the water), lift the string every so often, notice a crab is hanging on eating the open muscle, shake it off so crab falls in the pail.
I think I remember buying live crabs at a swap meet in Orlando Florida for $4 a pound just less than 30 years ago.
It was hilarious when the double brown bagged bag ripped open in the kitchen and a bunch of crabs skittering away on the linoleum floor in the kitchen !!!!!
Go down by the rocks, find a muscle, break it open, tie a string around it, lower it between big rocks (a jetty in the water), lift the string every so often, notice a crab is hanging on eating the open muscle, shake it off so crab falls in the pail.
I think I remember buying live crabs at a swap meet in Orlando Florida for $4 a pound just less than 30 years ago.
It was hilarious when the double brown bagged bag ripped open in the kitchen and a bunch of crabs skittering away on the linoleum floor in the kitchen !!!!!
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ahh, jumpers... those were the days, my friends...
Dude -- I had, and
still have, somewhere, I think, a breakout box, so one could try before one buys, so to speak. See comment above. 
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They still taste magnificent.
Last time we were in Charm City (October), we had crab cakes at a favorite place, north of town. It's an Italian place... not the kind of place one might go in search of food products derived from the beautiful swimmers*; one of those if you know, you know, fairly well-kept secrets.
Expensive but oh, so good. So good. Fresh lump, mostly back fin -- lightly but appropriately seasoned. Huge, too. Worth every penny.
Full disclosure: I am a born, bred, and educated Baltimoron. Crabs and tomatoes are religion where I come from.
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The blue crab, Callinectus sapiduthe = beautiful swimmer.
Better choose another method because I'm definitely not qualified. You'll only get ropeburn.
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<yorkshire>DIP switches? You were lucky! When I were a lad...</yorkshire> (reaching for bag of jumpers, or even a soldering iron...)
Not really an age thins as those ran in parallel depending on budget or requirements like high vibration environment.
Similar situation, different industry. You should see the stack of gender changers I recently saw used to create clearance because someone had specified a backshell with inappropriate exit, and that's for a new(ish) project. If I had a picture it would be worthy of this thread!
I'd love to have pictures too. Imagine stiff wire on the pins holding connectors together, the whole thing wrapped in olive green tape. Worked for years until the whole system got scrapped
