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From: cs4ed3ap@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tyldesley     A)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: silly cables
Message-ID: <27CD581B.12634@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 28 Feb 91 19:20:58 GMT
References: <1991Feb14.173537.16342@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <27C2E5DE.6775@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1991Feb22.170758.2792@csn.org!datran2>
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In article <1991Feb22.170758.2792@csn.org!datran2> smb@csn.org!datran2 writes:
>In article <27C2E5DE.6775@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4ed3ap@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tyldesley     A) writes:
>>>If you want modem control and hardware flow control, then *no* Mac serial
>>>cable will work.  Wire your own as per zs(4) (DIN pins 1-6 and 8), or wait
>>>for NeXTconnection to get them in stock ((800)800-NEXT).  I got the
>>>impression from them that it would be a while.
>
>Thats odd.  I just bought two.  They had some local outfit making them
>up.  A very professional job with a molded end DIN for $28 and they
>shipped in two days.  It was grey 8^( which might displease purists,
>but I keep the cables out of sight anyway.
>
>Steve 
>
Hey, hold on here Steve. Some how my name has gotten associated with someone
elses words. I didn't write any of the above. My posting stated the opposite
explaining how one could use an Imagewriter 2 cable to make two hardware 
flow control capable modem cables.

Andrew