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- Path: sobt.ao.net!user
- From: eric@ao.net (Eric Shaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 8-pin to 9-pin adapter GV Performa modem?
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 23:37:38 -0500
- Organization: Access Orlando
- Message-ID: <eric-0104962337380001@sobt.ao.net>
- References: <315F296C.2764@ongdesign.com>
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-
- In article <315F296C.2764@ongdesign.com>, ong@ongdesign.com wrote:
-
- >I'm looking for a device (or hack) which will let me use a DIN-9
- >Performa modem in a regular DIN-8 Mac serial port. Any suggestions
- >(which don't require soldering/hacksawing)?
-
- Just a guess, but would this modem be POWERED off the serial port? If so,
- thats what the extra pin is for - to be powered off of the geoport. It
- needs to be given +5V DC relative to the ground pin.
-