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Re: Serial cable length limit?
- Subject: Re: Serial cable length limit?
- From: borchert@i50s19.ira.uka.de (Volker Borchert)
- Date: 29 Dec 1993 09:55:32 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Comp. Sc. Dept., FRG
- References: <2frfna$on2@eis.calstate.edu>
- Reply-to: borchert@ira.uka.de
If it's a standard EIA RS232 / CCITT V.24 interface with 19200 baud or
less, this is no problem. V.24 limits cable length to 100 feet, but
Prof. A. Schmitt told us in `Dialogsysteme' that they experimented
(maybe at lower baudrates) with a full cable drum (4000 feet) without
having any problems. I don't know how low-power CMOS drivers will do,
however. But the standard 100 feet should always work.
--
* "I'm a doctor, not a mechanic." Dr Leonard McCoy <mccoy@ncc1701.starfleet.fed> *
* "I'm a mechanic, not a doctor." Volker Borchert <borchert@ira.uka.de> *