Re: [NTLK] Apple Peripheral 8 cable - is this for Newton-to-PC?

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On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 09:58 PM, b e n w e l l
s|headwerkx wrote:

>
>
> I went to my local Mac-breakers for a serial cable to connect the
> Newt' and
> Mac together and the dopey buggers gave me a Peripheral 8 cable

Actually an Apple peripheral eight cable should have a mini din eight
at each end. It is the correct cable for hooking a newt to a older mac
or a newt to a stylewriter.
> - a serial
> DIN connector at one end and a D9 connector (a la PC serial
> connector). Is
> this the kind of thing that is used to connect a Newton to a PC?
Sounds like it, although I wouldn't really know :~>

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Marty

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