Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!mintaka!ogicse!orstcs!jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU!smithj From: smithj@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Jeremy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP48 serial cable Message-ID: <16849@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 14 Mar 90 08:12:08 GMT References: <2608@gmu90x.gmu.edu> Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: smithj@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Jeremy Smith) Organization: Oregon State University - CS - Corvallis Oregon Lines: 10 > From: peraino@gmu90x.gmu.edu (peraino) > > This implies that what HP is selling is a null-modem cable with pins > 2 & 3 reversed on the other end. This would mean that you CANNOT > use HP's cable to go from the 48 to a real modem. Anybody have any info. Simply plug in another null-modem cable, or anything that essentially switches lines 2 & 3 back again! I have tried this and managed to get my modem data light to light up (i.e. stuff was getting through).