10base2 / 10baseT (again)

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Fri Nov 24 18:12:13 2000

Tony wrote:
> Well, my experience seems to suggest that Apple _never_ followed accepted
> hardware standards, particularly with respect to connectors. Even their
> first serial card for the Apple ][ was wired as a DCE (and not a DTE
> which just about every other computer that I've come across is).

I'll agree that Apple sometimes carried their "Think Different" slogan
a bit too far, but in this case they had a reason. What they expected
users to connect to the original serial card (not the Super Serial Card)
was a Teletype, which of course would be wired as DTE.
Received on Fri Nov 24 2000 - 18:12:13 GMT