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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Null modem cable for an '040 NeXT
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.165719.2548@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 20 Jun 91 16:57:19 GMT
References: <9106171247.AA23695@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1753@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1991Jun18.044553.7311@macc.wisc.edu> <1756@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
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In article <1756@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>
>'030 NeXTs and '040 NeXT use different cables because the serial
>ports are different.  Mac cables will work with '030 cubes but
>not the newer '040 machines.
>
Okay, maybe I am doing something wrong, but I am using the same Mac
cables to connect to my modem and my Epson printer that I used on the
'30 and they are working and I am having no problems.  In fact, put and
take under tip seem more reliable now than when I had the '30.  It
happens that these cables have certain pins jumpered -- I can't remember
which.  Perhaps the jumpered pins have caused me to luck out.  These
cables were recommended by someone on the net, maybe even by Eric.
-- 
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA        rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us         412-471-5320
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