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- From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
- Subject: Re: HELP: Connecting Amiga 1000 modem to Amiga 500?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.145258.4151@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <10667547.176.716091498@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:52:58 GMT
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- 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG) publicly declared:
- >(1) Is there a way of connecting this modem to my serial port with either:
- > (a) different cable?
- > (b) gender bender (serial port on Amiga-500 is female)
-
- Use a gender bender or a different cable. DON'T PLUG INTO THE PARALLEL
- PORT! I once blew up a perfectly good I/O card (in an IBM clone) by
- not realizing that I was plugging into a parallel port instead of
- serial. Who's the doofus who decided to use a DB-25 connector for
- parallel ports in the first place? I work with so much serial
- equipment around here that I'm always reaching for gender changers and
- null modems. DB-25 and RS-232 are forever fused together in my
- brain...
-
- >(3) Are there communication packages that work through the parallel port?
-
- Funny you should mention that... For the heck of it I did an
- experiment once with JRComm to see if it would talk to the
- parallel.device. I had a hair-brained idea about putting a
- parallel-to-serial converter on the parallel port and using it to get
- high-speed communication to my modem. (My A500 can only do 19200 bps
- reliably, I was hoping to increase that by using the parallel port.) I
- never actually made the converter, but I did manage to get JRComm to
- use the parallel.device to send stuff to the printer. It didn't work
- *well*, but it worked.
-
- Ha! Bet you never thought anyone would actually try *THAT*, Jack! :-)
-
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