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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 serial port != A1000 (ackkkk!)(and 500 || <> 1000 ||)
Message-ID: <2548@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 07:21:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2548
Posted: Tue Oct 20 07:21:28 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Oct-87 03:02:17 EDT
References: <1962@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> <610@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <610@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
> Speaking of incompatibilities, the A500 parallel connector is female,
> the A1000 is male. It does not stop there. If your current cable passes
> 14, 16, or 25, cut them all out, or you will get problems. Cut out 15 too
> while you are at it.
> Why were they made different??? and the A500 serial <> A2000 serial?
> This makes no sense ??

The parallel cable is now the same as the IBM PC parallel printer cable
that can be found in any mom & pop computer store or accessory catalog.

The serial cable is now in reasonable confomance with EIA RS232 standards
and should cause no major problems with any normal piece of data communications
equipment, even when using the dreaded 25-conductor cable!

Seriously, we agonized over this quite a bit, but decided that using standard
cables that would be readily available would be of benefit to the users in
the long run.  With the old arrangement, you had to either hope your dealer
would stock the special Amiga cable or know which pins to cut to make it
work.  

-- 
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