14 Nov
2015
14 Nov
'15
8:33 a.m.
> connected them with a Laplink parallel cable
(I've still got a box of
> them).
On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Jules Richardson wrote:
Roughly what length are the cables? And do you know if
they do anything
special internally regarding shielding of the data lines?
They, and those of other similar products, were 3 to 6 feet long. There
is no special shielding requirement up to about 10 feet, or unless you
have extreme electrical noise next to them.
I think I should probably wire one up, and I have
various old printer cables
etc. laying around to use for donor parts, but I expect that data skew is a
problem over any significant distance.
So, bring the two computers to within 10 feet of each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LapLink_cable
Before MICROS~1 included an imitation in MS-DOS 6.00, . . .
Traveling Software created "Laplink"