Re: hooking up Mac with a modem

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Subject: Re: hooking up Mac with a modem
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Date: Thu, 19-Jul-84 19:11:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 19 19:11:51 1984
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Hooking a Mac up with a modem is actually very simple. The db9
connectors are readily available and if you have any skill with
a soldering iron a db9 db25 adapter will take about 15 minutes
to put together. The connector just uses a reduced number of the
rs232 signals, not a completely different interface.

One of the early issues of ST.Mac had a diagram
showing which pins on the mac side went to which pins on the modem
side. Using this diagram I made a cable by substituting the appropriate
db25 pins for the corresponding db9 signals (on the modem side).
If anyone is interested I can post the specifics.

The Apple modem is (as I understand from rumors) a Hayes compatible,
so all it does to dial is transmit the appropriate Hayes command to
dial. I have a U.S. Robotics modem that works fine with the pre-release
MacTerminal.

-Doug

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