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- From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:55:00 GMT
- Subject: Re: Serial cable to 25-pin port???
- Message-ID: <107200022@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpfcso!rrd
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- References: <1992Dec11.100526.61940@cc.usu.edu>
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- In comp.sys.hp48, slmdj@cc.usu.edu writes:
-
- > I just got the cable for my HP (FREE offer :-) :-)) and had one major/minor
- > question. Since the PC end of the cable is a DB-9, and by mouse already takes
- > up the only DB-9 serial port on my computer (COM 1) is there any problem with
- > just getting one of those adaptors that allows you to hook up a 9 pin to a 25
- > pin port? ... This (adaptor) would,
- > in my opinion, be the easiest, simplest solution to the problem, but I would
- > like to know if it will work _before_ I buy the adaptor
-
- Should work. If it doesn't, then you're only out about 5 bucks at the local
- Radio Shack.
-
- -- Ray
-