On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > > > But if you have a DE-9 PhoneNET adapter, that should go on your ISA
> > > > card just fine. Pre-DIN8 Macs had a DE9F for serial.
> > >
> > > Who would carry those? That would indeed take care of the whole problem.
> > > Fry's still has PhoneNET boxes but I don't think they have the DE-9
> > > variety.
> >
> > Isn;t it just a connector change? Get the pinouts of the DE9 mac serial
> > port and the mini-DIN 8 and wire up an adapter that links the pins with
> > the same names.
>
> I'd rather buy it, for two reasons. First, I've never found a female DIN-8
> port for sale (and not for lack of looking) -- that wasn't in something
> else, that is. Second, and more importantly, my soldering skills are zero.
> I know it's easy for a lot of you, but some of us are terminally all thumbs
> at even "simple" soldering tasks. :-)
Yikes! I hope that surgery is not a part of your plans, Cameron!
- don
> I'll look at sucking out the board EPROM and see if that gives me clues
> about how to build a LocalTalk frame.
>
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