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- From: cmartin@rahul.net (Clark Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
- Subject: Re: mac modems with no wall adaptor needed
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 23:40:35 -0800
- Organization: a2i network
- Message-ID: <cmartin-2502962340350001@476.rahul.net>
- References: <4g19ml$ke0@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> <cmartin-2002962342390001@476.rahul.net> <meiss-2402962324270001@tequila.interlog.com>
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- In article <meiss-2402962324270001@tequila.interlog.com>,
- meiss@tequila.com (Mark Eissler) wrote:
-
- > 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????
- >
- The serial port connector has two cables coming out of it. One to the
- modem, the other to the ADB connector. The connector is about twice as
- 'high' as it is wide and the ADB cable comes out of this 'upper' half.
- It's this other half that gets in the way of the printer port on a
- 7500/8500.
-
- --
- Clark Martin
- Macintosh Consultant
- Redwood Ciy, CA, USA
- Another designated driver on the Information Super Highway.
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