Re: How do I get apple ][ 5 1/4 to Mac ][ci

[dklugh@iwaynet.net]

On 1997-05-20 nathan@visi.com(NathanMates) said:
   >reasons for the stupidity. Then there's also the making of the 9-pin
   >very much non-serial joystick connector on the //e and up the same
   >as the 9-pin serial port from PCs, which does a great job of
   >confusing others.

Actually,ALL joystick ports that I've eveer seen on a computer (except the 
PC,of course) are 9-pin.
The port being on the main circuit board,rather than coming out of a card slot,
also gives the game away. (read "makes it obvious")
Even if apple had made a 9-pin RS232 port,since there's no such thing as 9-pin
RS232,it would've been incompatible with the AT RS232 port.
(the Atari's 9-pin RS232 is different;IBM hadn't created their 9-pin yet!)

Of course RS232 is a hack created so that people could work until the REAL
standard came out.But that never caught on.

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