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- From: martijnb@stack.urc.tue.nl (Martijn van Buul)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Do PETs have serial ports?
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 08:24:25 GMT
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Dave Tickle (aiu214@freenet.mb.ca) wrote:
- : I have an old Commodore pamphlet that claims that the CBM 8000 series
- : and/or SP9000 machines have RS-232 serial ports. I also saw a document
- : somewhere on the WWW that suggested the same thing.
-
- : Can anyone verify that this is true? And, if true, where is the port
- : located and does it use the standard RS-232 voltages? (+/-12v)
-
- : Thanks.
-
- Well, it HAS a serial (RS-232C) port, like evry commodore micro with an
- user-port has. Only problem is -> The logic levels are TTL (0/+5v) instead
- of +/- 12 V. There are several chips (MAX232?) who could solve this problem
- though.
-
- Y.C.,
-
- Martijn
-
- PS: Don't expect too much 'bout transferrates...
-