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- From: meiss@tequila.com (Mark Eissler)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
- Subject: Re: mac modems with no wall adaptor needed
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 23:24:27 -0400
- Organization: Tequila Films Inc.
- Message-ID: <meiss-2402962324270001@tequila.interlog.com>
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- In article <cmartin-2002962342390001@476.rahul.net>, cmartin@rahul.net
- (Clark Martin) wrote:
-
- > I set one of these up on an 8500. One problem is the serial port
- > connector is oversize where the cable from the ADB plug joins in. On the
- > 8500 this prevents something from pluging into the printer port if the
- > modem is plugged into the modem port. In this case, the something was a
- > LocalTalk adapter. Fortunately Open Transport allows the use of the modem
- > port for LT, so I switched ports. The 8500 (and 7500) use an over-under
- > modem / printer port connecter arrangement instead of the traditionaly
- > side by side configuration. If they had just 'Y'd the cable, it would
- > have been simpler.
- >
-
- Wait a sec. The pass-through connector is on the ADB. So, why would you
- have plugged the ADB connector into the serial port????
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