schmidtd wrote:
On Dec 14, 9:04 pm, Hugh Hood <hughh...@earthlink.net> wrote:I realize that this would not technically be an auto-switch situation, since you have to select Printer/Modem with the control panel, but I'd still be surprised.My thoughts exactly... it might not be auto-sensing, but if you can control direction via software - that would be very cool. I don't remember anything like that in the SCC manual. I'll have to dig that back out and take another look...
IIRC, the SSC uses discrete RS-232 level shifter/driver ICs, which have a fixed direction of data transmission. Therefore, hardware rerouting of signals is required to change the direction of a line or lines. -michael NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."