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From: zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu (RALPH ZAZULA)
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Subject: Re: MIDI cable for the NeXT under 2.0
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Date: 25 Mar 91 19:53:50 GMT
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In article <1991Mar25.154356.14562@news.stolaf.edu>, brownd@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu (David H. Brown) writes...
>In article <1991Mar21.152926.475@arizona.edu> zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu writes:
>>
>>[...a MIDI cable suggestion]
>>All of this is on an '030 Cube.  I don't know if the serial ports have changed
>>on the '040.  Oh, yeah - I don't work for Opcode, etc, etc...
>>
>>Ralph
>>
> 
>	I believe that the +5v on the B port has in fact been removed in the
>'040 revision of the NeXT motherboard. It was sometimes useful, but after
>all, the +5v isn't a standard part of the RS422 specs. The docs I have read
>on the '040 board show two identical ports which conform to the "standard"
>set on the Macintosh.
> 
>	Standard Macintosh MIDI interfaces should still work, but devices
>which required that +5v will need to find power elsewhere.
> 
>St. Olaf may or may not have nothing    | M M | M M M | M M | M M M | M M |   
>to do with the things I talk about.     | M M | M M M | M M | M M M | M M |   
>                                        | M M | M M M | M M | M M M | M M |  
>Dave Brown: brownd@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  
>"I _like_ programming the DX-7!"        |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|  

In that case, Opcode also makes a wall-outlet-powered version of the
Midi Translator.  I don't recall it's name or exact price but it should
be in the same ballpark...

Ralph 

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   | Ralph Zazula                               "Computer Addict!"        |
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