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There are USB to Serial port adapters. Don't know if they work with a MAC or IMAC, but they are real. John A. Donaldson (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) DTR/CD aren't alternatives, they serve an entirely different purpose. The PC software toggles the CTS signal, which the tower shorts to RTS, so that it can tell if the tower is connected. Since the Mac serial port doesn't have those pins, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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I seem to remember seeing an add-in board which would add PC style serial ports to Macs. Now this was several years ago; it was for the NuBus; and it was rather expensive. I believe it was done so you could interface lab equipment to Macs. It may (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Err, right. And if there's DTR/DCD printed on the wires it just won't play. Naughty people messing about with the assigned meanings of the pins. Whatever next? Cheers, Ben. (25 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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In article <367852CA.1EFBB7C2@a...up.co.uk>, Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> writes (...) This is all getting very misleading - _not_ DCD or DTS or CD. The pairs are : RTS/CTS - normal hardware data handshaking. Careful here - I have come across 9D (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Don't be so negative. All you need to do is hack the emujlator so that continuously reports those two pins shorted. Jasper (25 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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