EIA 232 vs. 422, Color Computers (was Re: Serial floppy drives)

From: Stan Barr <stanb_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Fri Sep 6 13:01:00 2002

Hi,

Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com> said:

> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Mike Feher wrote:
>
> > similar. 422 by the way is specified to go almost 1000 feet, while with 232
> > you are lucky to get over 10 feet. Regards - Mike
>
> That's not true. Serial cable can go for a good many feet before the
> signal breaks down (someone should pipe in with actual data ;)

I've got a RS232 cable running 30 feet from down here to the upstairs
radio shack so I can have the PDP emulator upstairs and the terminal
down here. Works fine up to 57600 but won't do 115200. The terminal
only goes up to 19200 so that's ok.
-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Fri Sep 06 2002 - 13:01:00 BST

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