3 Jul
2001
3 Jul
'01
7:19 a.m.
I am sure RS432 is a typo for RS423. My experiece with
the common
implementations of RS423 on DEC machines (and with the so-called RS422 on
the Mac, which is nothing of the sort...) is that it's possible to wire
up a cable that will connect it to a standard RS232 port. It may not
officially meet the stnadard, but it sure works for reasonable-length
cables. So the fact that you get DEC RS423 ports is a non-problem.
On the Mac it's also easy enough to wire up adapters to go
from the Mac serial ports to RS232. I've run PC
modems off of Mac's
like that, as well as hooked my Tandy Model 102 to my Mac
to exchange
data.
Jeff
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