[SunRescue] Egads! Serial battles...

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Honniball [mailto:John.Honniball at uwe.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:06 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Egads! Serial battles...
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:45:44 -0400 jeff borisch 
> <jeff at sonicrim.com> wrote:
> > I have been trying to get to the same thing myself with a 
> PB 165c. I have
> > the Serial A connected to a male to male connector then to 
> a Laplink cable
> > which then connects to a Mac modem cable.
> 
> Don't forget that Macs use an RS-423 interface, which has a 
> lower voltage swing than RS-232 (0v to +5V, I think, 
> instead of -12V to +12V).  Many RS-232 devices will still 
> work, but some won't.

>From reading the SHR, a lot of the serial ports on SPARCs support both
RS-232 and RS-423.  http://sun-ref.sunhelp.org/
	Greg