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- High Speed Hardware Handshake Cable
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- There is a difference between a normal Modem cabel (such as the one
- Apple sells) and a high speed hardware-handshake modem cable. Hardware
- handschake allows the modem and the computer to talk to each other
- without having to clog up the data line. This has two advantages.
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- 1) It is faster, usually throughput is increased by about 10%
- 2) It makes it easier to set the data-rate between modem and computer
- higher than the rate between modem and the far modem. This is
- necessary for proper operation of data correction and compression
- protokolls such as MNP and V.42/V.42bis.
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- Some modems even require you to have a hardware handshake cable for
- proper operation.
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- There is one disadvantage. Because there are only 8 pins on the Mac
- serial port one of the signals gets lost. This is DTR (Data Terminal
- Ready) this tells the modem whether a terminal program is running on your
- Mac. You can tell the modem to ignore this signal.
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- Hardware Handschake Modem Cable:
- Mac Modem
- Din 8 DB 25
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- 1 4 used for RTS (you lose DTR, sorry no way around this)
- 2 5 used for CTS
- 3 2 TD
- 4 7 Ground
- 5 3 RD
- 6 NC
- 7 8 Carrier detect
- 8 7
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- Connect Mac pins 8 & 4 together, to tell the Apple serial port (RS-432)
- to run in the standard RS-232 mode.
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- Pin 7 (GPi, general purpose pin) is usually used for Carrier Detect.
- Carrier Detect tells the Mac that the modem is connected to anoter
- modem. Note that Pin 7 (GPi) is available only on the better Macs (not
- on the Plus, Classics and LC).
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- If you already have a standard modem cable you will probably only have
- to rewire pin 1 (thats usually whats different).
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- Tell the modem to ignore DTR (often on dip switch 1). You need software
- capable of hardware handshaking, of course.
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- 1991 by Duncan McNutt, Rhein-Main Macintosh BBS [FRG-06101-41471] (2:243/100)
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