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On Saturday 24 June 2006 21:49, Lord Sauron wrote: |
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> I dug out of this ancient computer book (Upgrading and Repairing PCs |
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> 12th Ed.) this relic technology of the Null Modem Cable. It's a |
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> twisted Parallel Cable that allows 2 PCs to almost literally talk to |
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> each other. |
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While there were cables using the parallel port for communication, they always |
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needed special software to deal with this. A nul-modem though used to be |
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serial and as such worked the normal tty stuff. |
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For parallel I remember that lantastic-z had a parallel cable and there was |
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some other program under dos which used to use a parallel cable. Forgot the |
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name, but maybe with a little google and dosbox you have a chance there.. |
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