Re: [NTLK] Newton (Fast) Serial Docking for newbies

From: Andrei Chichak (acpmiedm_at_telusplanet.net)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2005 - 11:36:48 PST


>I read that a with a Mac printer cable we could connect a MP via
>Appletalk on OS 9, without using a Appletalk/Localtalk hardware, but
>still not tried it.

Well, in effect, you have tried. A Mac printer cable is a localtalk cable.
They haven't been serial since the stylewriter. (Don't flame me, I'm
pulling this straight out of my butt, but it was true as of the
introduction of the powermacs and the demise of the 040s).

Andrei

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