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From: tomk@lakesys.UUCP (Tom Kopp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Maximum Length of a PC Serial Cable?
Summary: You're fine.
Message-ID: <838@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 00:09:11 GMT
References: <1986@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee Wisconsin
Lines: 15

In article <1986@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>, regoli@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (michael regoli) writes:
# before i go crazy trying to do something that can't be done, does
# anyone know a safe limit on the length of a serial cable?  i'd like
# to run a serial cable approximately 30 feet @ 9600 bps to drive a
# laser.

You should have no problem.  I've heard that as a rule, you don't need a modem
or a power booster for serial connecting computer until after you cross 50'.
Where I go to school, we've got things hooked up to a couple of hundred feet
apart w/ no trouble.

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