24 Nov
2000
24 Nov
'00
6:12 p.m.
Tony wrote:
Well, my experience seems to suggest that Apple
_never_ followed accepted
hardware standards, particularly with respect to connectors. Even their
first serial card for the Apple ][ was wired as a DCE (and not a DTE
which just about every other computer that I've come across is).
I'll agree that Apple sometimes carried their "Think Different" slogan
a bit too far, but in this case they had a reason. What they expected
users to connect to the original serial card (not the Super Serial Card)
was a Teletype, which of course would be wired as DTE.