Re: Building Appletalk board connectors?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Paul R. Santa-Maria wrote:
> "Michael J. Mahon" wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Michael, I think the discussion is about the internal
> cable that goes from the board to the outside, not the
> external Appletalk cables that go between computers.
> It is similar to a Super Serial card missing the ribbon
> cable: useless.

I understood.  I was suggesting that the "Appletalk" connectors
are available as S-video female connectors if he wanted to make
a cable, or perhaps he could skip the mini-DIN and go straight
to a phone connector...

> I have about a dozen Appletalk boards and ONE internal cable.

An even better solution...

-michael

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