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From: Eric.Thayer@cs.cmu.edu (Eric H. Thayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Modem hookup problems (2400 baud)
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.201513.7673@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 20:15:13 GMT
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In article <1990Nov17.180837.10533@news.iastate.edu> geff@iastate.edu 
(Underwood Geoffrey Dale) writes:
> >Where does one obtain a NeXT serial cable?
>         The Macintosh to DB-25 cable works fine:  I'm using one now.  
Stores
> should recognize this cable as a "Macintosh to modem" cable (as opposed 
to
> "Macintosh to printer," which is a null modem cable).  You should be 
able to
> find these anyplace that sells Macs.

Let me add that a Mac cable does not support DCD (carrier detect) 
properly.  So you can't use one if you are concerned about dial 
in.  But, if you only care about dial out, it should work ok, as was 
pointed out.

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