At 8:52 PM +0100 8/1/99, Hugh Browton (mobile) wrote:
>I've just bought a mini dock for my Duo 280c and am puzzled by the modem
>port on the back of it. On the 280, which contains an Express Modem the
>port is a small square socket which takes a US-style phone plug (?RJ-11).
>The mini-dock has a small round DIN socket, 8-pin, marked as modem port
>with a telephone, on the left hand end as you look at it from th eback - ie
>at the same end as the modem socket on the Duo. It is the same physical
>type of connector as the two serial ports (modem and printer) on the dock.
>The mini-dock was apparently for the UK market. What wiring (pin-outs)
>would I need to make up for an adapter between the round modem port on the
>dock and a UK-phone lead?.
Basically, you need a modem to do that. :) If it's an 8-pin mini-DIN,
it's an awfully good guess that it's just a serial port, not a modem.
The telephone symbol doesn't mean that it is a modem, just that it's a
modem port -- by which Apple means that it's the port they recommend you
attach a modem to, rather than attaching it to the port they've designated
as the printer or LocalTalk port.
Tim Seufert
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