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

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Fri Apr 27 09:09:28 2001

>
> [RS232 - Commodore Serial cables]
> > > There is no such thing as a simple cable to interconnect the two.
> > >
> >
> > For many years I used a standard null modem cable to connect my PC's
> > with my A1000 to transfer software between them, can't get much simpler
> > than that.
>
> I don't dispute that you can interconnect a Commodore RS232 port (as
> found on the Amigas, and the P500) with a PC serial RS232 port using a
> null modem cable. In fact I'd be very suprised if this was not the case.
>
> The original suggestion, though was that there was a cable to link
> Commodore serial peripherals (as used with the C64, C128, Vic20, etc) to
> an RS232 port. Since these interfaces are very different, in voltage
> levels, in the bit-level protocol, and in the higher level protocol, I
> think it's impossble to use a simple cable to link such devices to a
> generic RS232 port.
>
For serial interfaces check out:

http://www.cmdweb.com/cbm

And check out the "Turbo232 High-Speed Modem Interface". With a SuperCPU you
can go to 115200 bps.

also available:

http://come.to/ide64

This is an IDE interface for the C-64, which has a dual port RS-232 interface.
They are also working on a MP3 Player for IDE64!!

Cheers,

Bryan
Received on Fri Apr 27 2001 - 09:09:28 BST

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