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- From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Hi-Speed Modems and //c
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:01:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.070117.1914@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Nov12.065923.11659@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <c8922369.721741862@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au> <c8922369.722093903@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au>
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- In article <c8922369.722093903@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au> c8922369@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Leon James Garde) writes:
- > c8922369@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Leon James Garde) writes:
- >
- > >>Since it seems that high-speed modems require hardware handshaking to
- > >>operate properly, am I correct in assuming my //c will not properly handle
- > >>a 9600 bps modem? Ya know, with my crippled little 5-pin serial port and
- > >>all...
- > >I have the 6551 pinouts, what should I do to connect a 25 pin to the chip
- > >direct ?
- >
- > in answering my own question, I looked at my //c's board.
- > the 4 serial port wires connect the AMI S6551P chips, through
- > SIB and SOB, assumably for serial input buffer and serial output buffer.
- >
- > what are MC1488 (sob) and MC1489 (sib) ??? what do they do ?
-
- The 1488 and 1489 convert between TTL signals (as used by the 6551)
- and RS-232 signals (as used between computers). The voltages involved
- are quite different. RS-232 uses -3 to -25 volts to indicate a logic
- "1" and +3 to +25 volts to indicate a logic "0", while TTL uses 2.0 to
- 5.0 volts for a "1" and 0.0 to 0.7 volts for a "0".
-
- If you don't know this sort of thing already, you shouldn't be
- fiddling around with a soldering iron on RS-232 signals!
-
- Trying to feed RS-232 signals directly into a 6551 will NOT work, and
- you will damage the chip. You have to go through the level converters
- (1488 and 1489) but I suspect you will find that there are no spare
- converters in a IIc. The IIc only has four transmit and receive
- signals (two of each for each port) so probably has a single 1488 and
- 1489 which are shared by the two ports.
-
-
- What do you want to do this for, anyway?
-
- You will not be able to get a high speed modem working with a IIc,
- because the 6551's output flow control lines interfere with transmit
- and receive data and interrupts (depending which one you use).
- --
- David Empson
-
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