From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

On Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:13:21 -0400
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

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And working in a multi-platform environment, you too as an
employee, have to be ready for anything. In my (non-Windows)
group, I asked for a WinPC one day, as I had some software
that only ran in that ecosystem. Our warehouse (similar to the
Raiders of the Lost Arc warehouse), provided me with a 6MHz PC.
Problem ? It didn't have a NIC in it :-) I didn't have a copy
of Kermit (and when you need Kermit, there's never a way to
get it onto the isolated box). I ended up moving data back
and forth, over a "serial port". Complete with learning
what the end-of-text character is on Apple and Windows and
what you have to type to close the transmitted file. It's
as much fun as you can have while wearing pants. My manager
never found out about the raw edges of not having a
NIC-in-a-box.

As an engineer, one of the things you get when you hire me,
is I come with a kit bag of RS232 connectors and cables,
including the null modem adapter for connecting two computers
over serial. I ran into this use case, rescue-over-serial
enough times, to have my own emergency kit bag for this.
You need 9-to-25, 25-to-9, gender-benders-M-F, null modem
(rolled cable) adapter, lengths of cable etc. On a
typical mission, you need four-adapters-in-a-row to make
a connection.

Paul

Better posted to afc; no NIC computers is *my* generation!

FU set as this was another of man wai chang mega xposts
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Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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