Re: are Apple peripheral-8 cables wired straight through?

[lgarde@scorch.hna.com.au (Leon Garde)]

shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford) writes:

>I have two Apple peripheral-8 cables, the kind that connects a IIgs to an IW
>II, on hand and I wanted to use them with a switch box to connect a modem to
>two machines. When I tried it, the modem didn't work. So I guess the cables
>aren't wired straight through pin to pin. Is that so or is something else 
well, they are both 'null modem''d cables. that is the cables are not
'straight-through' eg tx to tx, rx to rx, but are tx to rx, rx to tx
etc.

you will need a modem cable ( straight through)
or a null modem - it corrects the null modem in the printer cable
to bring it back to straight through ..

>wrong?
dont know. depends what your 'switch box' does ..
>--
>Randy Shackelford                                "That's right, keep dancing
>shack@crash.cts.com                               on the minefield"
>                                                                  -Al Bundy
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leon garde; lgarde@scorch.hna.com.au