| From: | Colin Wenzel |
| Date: | 9 May 2000 at 09:14:45 |
| Subject: | Re: well? |
On 09-May-00, tesla wrote:
> Hello all.
> I have another hopefully simple question.
>
> I am trying to use a program called Linkit, to serially connect my
> amiga to my pc. I have used it before with great success, but not, it
> will not work. I believe that it doesn't work because i'm no longer
> using the original cable. I think the only difference between it, and
> a standard serial cable is that the LinkIt cable was a null modem
> cable, and probably had some power lines not connected on the Amiga
> side, because of the non-standard pin-out of the Amiga's serial port.
>
> I have tried a null modem cable, but to no avail. Anyone know the
> pinout of the 3000 Tower for the serial port?
>
> Thank you,
> Gene
I believe you will need a cable that has the TXD & RXD reversed
on one end, so that TXD from one end goes to RXD on the other end
& visa-versa, off hand I think that was pins 2 & 3 on a D25 connector.
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Colin Wenzel. Australia.
EMAIL: mailto:colstv@hotkey.net.au
URL: http://www.hotkey.net.au/~colstv/
ICQ: 17608330
AMIGA: 4000T, 68060/50, 150Mb RAM,
OS 3.5, EGS Spectrum.
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