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From: ain1496e@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Modem directly connected to Atari
Message-ID: <18701.25f428d3@merrimack.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 21:17:07 GMT
References: <1990Feb7.060203.24025@uokmax.uucp> <18482.25d03ac5@merrimack.edu> <6371@cps3xx.UUCP>
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In article <6371@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
> Connecting a standard RS-232 device is not as simple as making a cable.
> The Atari SIO (Serial I/O) port CAN work as an RS-232 port, but it needs
> a little help.
> 
> Further, some of the lines coming off the modem are tough or impossible
> to replicate so what you normally want is a subset.
> 
> The cable that most likely came with the Supra is an R-Verter, a
> commercial product. The R-Verter was a slick device that looked 
> like a cable, but hidden inside the RS232 end of the cale, inside 
> the hood, was a weel made tiny little board with a single IC.
> 

     I have a supra 1200AT modem, I know the cable isn't an RVerter, and I have
never opened the cable but I do believe it is a straight cable without any IC's
  If I have a chance I'll open it and check.  Any software that was designed
for the SX works fine with the cable and in fact I now use the a Packard Bell
2400 baud modem with the cable.