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- From: ceejack@crl.com (Jack Vander White)
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- Subject: Re: RS-232 interfaces
- Date: 6 Jan 1996 20:28:54 -0800
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- John F Davis (aa122@detroit.freenet.org) wrote:
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- : >Has anyone home built a null modem cable to connect an IBM (rs-232)
- : >to a C-64 serial port????
- :
- : Yup, Omnitronics (And alot of other companies). You may need a 25pin to 9 pin
- : adaptor to go with it but the old OMNITRONICS RS-232 interface, The MW-350
- : RS-242 PRINTER mode interface and I think it was the APROTEC rs-232 interface
- : all support PRINTER modes, This are null modem cables for the 64. Some (IE
- : GENUINE) Ibms have 9 pin serial ports where these interfaces had the more
- : standard db-25, but adaptors to deal with that problem are about $7.95 each
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- What you have listed bove are RS-232 interfaces. Not null modem cables.
- World of difference.
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- Jack VW
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