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

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

I don't  have copies of those books and I owned a Mac
Plus and not a Fat Mac so I don't recall.  I should have
qualified that better.  I had wrongly assumed that the Mac
Plus only introduced the SIMM memory and the SCSI
port.

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"David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
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> william strutts <wrstrutts1@home.com> wrote:
>
> > The original Mac used the mini-8 connectors for the
> > printer port and the modem port.
>
> Nope.  The original Mac 128K through to the Mac 512KE used a DE-9 female
> connector for the printer and modem ports (as did the original
> LaserWriter).  There is even a diagram of it in Inside Mac, Volume 3
> (which I have right here).  The pinout is quite different to a PC.
>
> The Mac Plus was the first Mac model to use the Mini-Din-8 connector for
> the serial ports.  (It is documented in Inside Mac, Volume 4.)
>
> I don't know what the Lisa used for its serial ports, but it wouldn't
> surprise me if it was the same DE-9 female.