I know that many modern "RS232" ports are actually not RS-232 spec compliant. I can test a few gadgets we have around here, but I was wondering if anybody else has seen wildly non-compliant ports.
Does everybody still even bother to swing negative on drivers? What are the smallest drive excursions anyone's seen?
I know that my HP computer receivers will blow up if they see honest
+-12 volt drives. The outputs seem to swing from -6 to +6 into a hi-z load.John