jch@public.BTR.COM (Jack Hwang) (10/12/90)
After posting a question about how to connect PC and Mac, I received a lot of responses. At last, I decided to move both machince to be side by side(Wow! it's tough!) and get a RS232 cable from the local store. Thanks for all the helps. Jack Hwang The summary of the response. ---------------------------------------- From: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg) Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute We're a little short on information... for instance, what kind of cable are you trying to use? A serial cable? Phonenet? What software are you using? If you are using a serial configuration, what pinouts on each end do you have configured? Reply these to the net, other people need the same info to answer your post. ---------------------------------------- From: Ellen Brewer <ebrewer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Suggest you try a null-modem cable instead. You don't say what your exact hardware and software setup is, but a null-modem cable will allow you to use whatever speeds your computers and the software you have for them will support. With kermit software (which should be available to you free) on both you can go really fast! If you already have a modem cable for each computer, you need a cable with female ends which crosses the data-in and data-out lines of RS232 and possibly also some 'handshaking' lines, which you can get from a local dealer or a mailorder place like Inmac. ------------------------------------------ From: george@swbatl.sbc.com (George Nincehelser 5-6544) Organization: Southwestern Bell Advanced Technology Laboratory INEXPENSIVE?! If you think that's inexpensive, you're going to love this! Just make a direct RS-232 connection between the two machines. A few simple wires will do it. 10 meters should be no problem at all. Best of all, you'll be able to get speeds like 9600 kbps and 19200 kbps! George ------------------------------------------- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Often modems won't work over just a phone line-- they need the central office in between. A better solution would probably be to get some fairly heavy ribbon cable and run an RS-232 line across-- you still might not be able to get high baud rates reliably, but you should be able to do at a MINIMUM, 1200 baud. (your existing cable might work at the mac end, depending on whether the PC side is DTE or DCE. A mac modem cable looks DTE, so if the PC port is configurable, set it to DCE) -------------------------------------------