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- Subject: Re: REVIEW: Zeos Pocket PC
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.181043.11867@bing.UUCP>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 18:10:43 GMT
- References: <1992Aug29.194932.14023@gagme.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Bing's Rubber Chicken Factory -- "Our clucks are boneless."
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- barnhart@gagme.chi.il.us (Mr Aaron Barnhart) writes:
- > The next big problem was connectivity. I discovered that the ports
- > in the back were actually mini-ports: one parallel, one serial, about
- > one-fourth as big as their full-size counterparts. Zeos provides
- > cables that attach to them and which are supposed to allow you
- > connectivity to a number of devices, including a server and printer.
- > They don't. The LPT1 mini-port cable, for instance, has a 24-pin
- > female serial at the other end -- most printers I know of have
-
- Ummmmmmmmm I think what they wanted you to do was to use a regular
- printer cable which has a male 25 D on one end to make the connection.
-
- > parallel ports in the back. The serial mini-port cable has a 9-pin
- > male at the other end. This plugged into the back of my old Toshiba,
- > in a port marked "RGB."
-
- The RGB port is a video output port! If you connect your serial port
- into that port, you may end up damaging both ports. Again I think what
- you need to do is find the right kind of cable to go from the end of the
- provided cable and to your computer.
-
- > --
- > Mr. Aaron Barnhart@gagme.chi.il.us -- posting from Evanston, Illinois
-
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