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- From: gws@gwssun.att.com (Gary Sanders)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sparcstation serial port
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.190720.2377@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 19:07:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.203550.25943@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
- >Can anyone tell me anything about the internal circuitry of the serial
- >port in a Sparcstation?
- >
- >Also, am I right in thinking Sparcstation serial ports output + and - 5 V
- >rather than the usual 9 to 12 volts on an RS-232 port?
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- The Sparcstation 2 (and I think 1/1+) has a jumper on the mother board
- to select RS232 or RS423 signaling levels.
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