Re: Appletalk on a IIgs with phoneNet connection to Win2K?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

The original Mac used the mini-8 connectors for the
printer port and the modem port.  Up to the Mac Plus,
they used a non-ADB keyboard.  The Mac SE introduced
the ADB keyboard and that is what you might be thinking
of.

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"John Oyler" <jojo4@mediaone.net> wrote in message
news:_bR07.6608$Lc3.1371267@typhoon.jacksonville.mediaone.net...
> Tim,
>     The serial port on a windows box is rs232... incompatible with
localtalk
> or rs422. It might be bad to try this, wouldn't want to fry anything.
>
> The db9 phonenet is for the orginal mac, I believe, which didn't have the
> miniDIN 8 plug, like the later macs do. Also, if you have a Localtalk PC
> card for the windows box, it would indeed use this, as opposed to the
mini8.
> Quite possibly a few older printers of various makes with localtalk
options
> may have used this, I'm unsure. Now, if only I knew what that hdb15
phonenet
> adapter was, that I found last year...
>
> John
>
>