My IIgs <--> My PC

[tlang@freeway.apana.org.au (Tony Langdon)]

It's 14 Nov 96  08:48:18,
We'll return to timf@interlog.com and All's
discussion of My IIgs <--> My PC

 >I have heard of simply plugging a phone cord into the LINE jack of both
 >modems and then having them fake a connection, but don't know quite how.
 >Has anyone out there solved this problem?


 ti> Can't be done that simply, you would need a phone line simulator to do
 ti> that,  its much easier/cheaper to just use a Null modem (all that
 ti> entails is a serial  cable with a couple of pins crossed, tx to rx
 ti> etc.)

Depends on the modems.  I have used back to back modems for testing
things here, and it's worked fine (in fact, I did Fido mail sessions
between 2 boxes this way, but that's getting off topic).  I've struck
few modems that require a line simulator, in practice.

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