Hmm...what the heck kind of cable is this????

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Tue Apr 24 12:15:48 2001

> This does sound like a serial cable to connect to a modem ... although,
> wouldn't a DCE device want a D25 male plug? Well, I guess you can easily
> find this out if you test the connectivity of the pins on either end.
> I still have my C64 manual at home, so I can look up what you should
> expect to see with the serial cable.

Won't work -- common misconception is that the Commodore serial bus connects
things like modems. Presumably it could, but it's normally used for disk
drives and printers. Most Commodore native modems connected to the user port
in some way, either through an RS-232 interface or directly.

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