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- From: los@coos.dartmouth.edu (Charles Dubuque)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: cat >> faq
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.193252.20709@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:32:52 GMT
- References: <16573@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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- In article <16573@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> igor@charles.ucdavis.edu writes:
- >here's a faq for you list-starters, as it seems there isn't one
- >in place yet for this group.
- >
- >i have hated macs, just for the record, since their inception
- >due to their mysterious user interface which sacrifices direct
- >control and knowledge of the cpu's workings for a tv-like,
- >channel-switching mindlessness mode of operation. i'm not a mac
- >person, i really hate the ibm lionfood community, and have even
- >given up reading comp.sys.apple2 as apple seems to've largely
- >abandoned the line for the greater profits to be gotten from the
- >ignorant mac masses. but a friend has a powerful one, and i
- >wanna get him telecomputing. so, here goes:
- >
- >how does one hook a mac2 serial (rs422) port to the ol' 25-pin
- >rs-232-c on so many a-modem? is it different than the older macs?
- >there's a file on it at apple's ftp site, but it was written by
- >someone not at apple, in '89, and is itself poorly written in
- >parts. anyone know what "we fan out the end of the (stranded)
- >wire into a little umbrella around the head of the pin, then we
- >solder all around" is getting at in that gweeb document? thanx
- >oh so much in advance for all who will help with this.
- >
- >better yet... anyone got some extra cables for din8<->DB25 ??
-
- Ahem.
-
- Fuck you.
- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing
-
- Chuck
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