On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 at 11:54:21, Tony Firshman wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
PC side
-----------
\ 1 2 3 4 5 /
\ 6 7 8 9 /
-------
QL side (SER2 port, british version)
+---------------
| \
| /
+- 1 2 3 4 5 6 -
the cable connects the lines (numbering as above):
PC1 ---- QL1
PC3 ---- QL2
PC4 ---- QL3
This will probably not work.
You MUST connect handshaking (RTS/CTS) too, especially on non-Hermes
equipped machines.
QL 'DTR" must be treated as CTS - well it _is_ that is fact.
Whoops - I write this away from my props. I meant RTS of course.....
I have not read thread yet, so someone else will have said this.
I won't give the pin connections, as I have not got my data to hand!
I always find this sort of pinout discussion amazing.
This was, I thought, put to bed in 1988/9 with the arrival of QuaLsoft
File Transfer, where we laid out quite clearly the necessary pinouts.
Dilwyn has written a treatise at the end of a similar discussion on
this mailing list a few years back.
It seems some subjects will never die (8-)#
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