[plug] Macs and Linux (OLD macs)

Brad Campbell brad at seme.com.au
Fri Jul 26 16:15:30 WST 2002


I am the LinuxAlien wrote:
> 
> >
> >Hell, I had it running on a IIsi with 4 meg of ram.. bit slow in X though :p)
> >Even bodged up a serial null modem cable to my laptop to give it a network,
> >though ppp at 19,200 baud is a bit painful.
> 
> how did you get the serial cable connected, what port?
> Tim
Printer or modem port.. Just used some nice fine wire and poked it in there.
Pinouts are available on the net. The mac uses a varian of rs-422, so you connect the
Data + line to ground and connect the Data - line to the Rs-232 pin for both
tx and rx.

No handshaking.

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Brad....
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