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

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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 - 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? As it turns
> out I'm now using some old localtalk adapters, but if it is the PC cable
> then I might keep it in the kit instead of strangling those fools...

That, but wired as a null modem (Tx and Rx lines swapped around). You can
sometimes find null modem adapters as little DB9 to DB9 things at your local
computer shop

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