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- From: pitonyak@cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Pitonyak)
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: STRANGE zenith hardware behavior!!!
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 23:35:33 -0500
- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
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- In article <kennehra.727903265@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> kennehra@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Rich"TheMan"Kennehan) writes:
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- >Hi. I have some questions about the hardware of the Zeniths. I know that
- >they are IBM compatible, but when I was tinkering around I found some
- >inconsistencies between what I've seen in manuals and what actually goes on.
- >
- >Ok, first of all I found a pin diagram of the 9 pin male serial mouse port.
- >One of the pins is supposed to supply +5 volts, but when I put my meter on it
- >it registered +12 volts!!! What the...??? (I did measure it in DC voltage
- >too)
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- Make certain that you are on the correct pin. TTL represents a 1 as
- +5 volts where as RS-232-C represents this as -12V. TTL represents
- a 0 as 0 volts where as RS-232-C represents this as +12 volts.
- Just read it today while looking at a circuit to use the RS-232-C
- port to speak to my ham readio gear which uses TTL.
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- andy
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