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Re: Building Appletalk board connectors?



"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> lockar wrote:
>>
>>       Any one here willing to build me (for a fee of course) an Apple
>> // Appletalk connectors?   I have an Apple // Appletalk board with no
>> connectors (Yeah, I know with out the conectors the card is useless).
>
> I'm not so sure about that!  Most folks never used Appletalk cables
> anyway--they used PhoneNet or the equivalent that used regular
> 4-conductor phone wire and connectors.  Maybe all you need is a pinout.
>
> (BTW, the Appletalk 4-pin mini-DIN connectors are also S-video
> connectors, so Radio Shack can help with those.)
>
> -michael
>
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I think the official Apple localtalk cables are 3-pin mini-DIN. I have a few 
stashed away. I could be wrong, though, I use PhoneNET.

-Greg