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- From: tfinn@crash.cts.com (Aaron Grier)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: 1541 connected to an IBM
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.143659.16907@crash>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 22:36:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: crash.1992Nov15.143659.16907
- References: <1992Nov13.204853.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> <1992Nov14.041439.11274@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <1992Nov16.014201.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>
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- In article <1992Nov16.014201.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> mcmillan_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- >In article <1992Nov14.041439.11274@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, hill@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Craig Hill) writes:
- >
- >> I have an 'accelerator' not a genuine 1541. It is a clone
- >> and I have never had any compatiblity problems but I dont want to make up a
- >> cable just to find out. So, will it work on my machine.
- >
- >It uses the standard serial lines to communicate with the 1541, so I'm
- >pretty sure it would be 100% compatible with any 1541 clone.
- >The cable only uses 5 wires and it quite easy to make.
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- Do you really need to tie all the ground lines together on the PC side? Or
- just pick one that you'd like to use? I would love to make this thing!
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