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From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 serial port != A1000 (ackkkk!)(and 500 || <> 1000 ||)
Message-ID: <624@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 12:27:08 EST
Article-I.D.: louie.624
Posted: Fri Oct 23 12:27:08 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 16:05:36 EST
References: <1962@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> <610@louie.udel.EDU> <2548@cbmvax.UUCP> <1312@atkins.munsell.UUCP>
Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Organization: University of Delaware
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Summary: but the difference is not that big a deal!

In article <1312@atkins.munsell.UUCP> klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin (with the fiberglass reinforced left foot) McBride) writes:
>
>As much as I'm "agonizing" right now?
>
>Um, George, does this mean that when I trade in my 1000 for a 2000 later
>this month that my Future Sound audio digitizer (which connects to the
>parallel port) is going to be broken as far as the Amiga is concerned?
>
>Is this going to piss off the third party people who manufacture various
>dongles for the parallel (or serial) port?

   gee, the parallel port change is not that big a deal!
I went to radio shack, got a 25-wire parallel cable, got two 
of the DB-25 plastic connectors that you  put in a vise, and 
make a full-pass-through 25-pin female-femail connector. 
I plugged it in and it did not work. So i pulled out the 500
manual, look at pin-out on the port, pulled out the printer
manual, did same, and clipped pins 25, 14, and 16.
14 and 16 if i remember right were grounded by the printer-
which screwed up the 500. 25 is the printer reset line, 
which is grounded by the 500, so i clipped it. But as 
far as i can tell the functionality for printers does not 
change at all. Does Futuresound use pin 25?
  I can still unplug the printer from the 500 and into the 1000.
No problem. 
ron
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ron (rminnich@udel.edu)