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- |1-How to build a null-modem
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- |1-cable out of two dead mice...
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- By D!ck
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- First, kill two mice and cut off their tails, there should be four wires
- in each tail (we're talking PC mice here), Orange, Green, Blue and
- White. Strip and tin both sets of four wires and solder them together
- as follows...
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- Orange ------------ Green
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- Green ------------ Orange
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- Blue ------------ Blue
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- White ------------ White
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- Make sure that all individual wires are insulated so that spikes of
- solder do not short on other lines, and there you have it, a perfect COM
- cable, which will work with Quake and quite probably a few other games,
- as well as Hyperterminal for file transfer.
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- With Hyperterminal you can run quite happily at speeds of 115200, which
- will give you a serial transfer rate of just over 11k a second, not bad
- for a cable made of a couple of pieces of scrap!
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- -!-
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- $ff5
- [Cool idea! It would save me buying a proper serial cable adaptor for
- my laptop as well. Only probably is I only have one PC mouse and it's a
- new 6900dpi one! Anyone got any dead PC mice they don't want? Kei]
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- $fff
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