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From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Extention cables
Summary: Check phone extender for crossovers
Message-ID: <2467@antique.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 21:43:13 GMT
References: <2027@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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In <14340@cisunx.UUCP>, ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
> and the keyboard should take a telephone cable.  Are there any problems

As I recall from some earlier discussion, (someone will correct me if
I'm wrong), you have to be careful with phone extender cables.  Phones
apparently don't mind having certain pairs of wires in a four-wire
cable cross over from one end to the other.  Your keyboard, however,
can be permanently fried by such a cable.  You should test the cable
with a continuity check meter connected across the two ends of each
wire -- use the connectors of your original cable for reference.  Use
the extender cable only if it has only straight-through connections.

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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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