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From: egraeler@uceng.UC.EDU (Eric S Graeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Cable problems
Summary: Mine works
Message-ID: <7394@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 91 21:13:50 GMT
References: <397.27ab1ec7@stat.appstate.edu>
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg.
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In article <397.27ab1ec7@stat.appstate.edu>, c_s244010117@stat.appstate.edu writes:
> I have been playing around with the idea of making my own cable for a while, 
> and finally decided to go for it. I followed suggestions listed on the HP BBS 
> and on comp.sys.handhelds and now have a cable - unfortunately I can't get it 
> to work. I am using PC Kermit 3.01, and I have followed all the pin 

> after 1 retry! (the manual says this message appears after 10 retries) Does 
> anyone have any idea what is going on??!?!?!? Anyone else had similar problems?
>  
>                                 William 

I made mine out of some scotch tape and ripped apart female connecters.
Works fine, was able to play tetris.  Maybe your baud rates are not matched.

Eric Graeler
egraeler@uceng.uc.edu