Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!tut!santra!santra!mrinne From: mrinne@niksula.hut.fi (Mikko Rinne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: New Hardware. Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 90 13:16:03 GMT References: <15037@snow-white.udel.EDU> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 9 In-Reply-To: BPJ0%LEHIGH.BITNET@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu's message of 26 Mar 90 22:16:47 GMT > the damn thing! Now for the real kicker! I put a 25-25 pin male-female > cable from my serial port to the midi. The midi refused to work. I > tried the cable with my modem and it worked fine. Other than that > everything worked fine. Clueless on the cable thing though! You shouldn't be. At least the one MIDI schematic I've had a look at used pins that no normal modem cable would ever need. If the MIDI interface is not too hard to open, have a look inside. Shouldn't be too hard to put together an extension cable once you know what should be connected.