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Old Jul 19, 2001 | 06:52 PM
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Home made cable

I got my hands on a serial cable from an Accel piggy back system for TPI. It is a serial cable entering a little black box and coming out a black 4 pin connector with a b c d indicated in these colors..a=orange, b=green, c=red and d=black...

My question is can I modify this cable to use my laptop with craig moates software? Basically I am assuming that the black box is the max 232 chip that is needed@@????maybe, I hope...

I was just wondering if anyone had done this already...I know it's a long shot but hey I took a shot...if not I need to get a cable but the extra dough is just not there at the moment...

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Old Jul 19, 2001 | 10:21 PM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by poncho@home:
I got my hands on a serial cable from an Accel piggy back system for TPI. It is a serial cable entering a little black box and coming out a black 4 pin connector with a b c d indicated in these colors..a=orange, b=green, c=red and d=black...
My question is can I modify this cable to use my laptop with craig moates software? Basically I am assuming that the black box is the max 232 chip that is needed@@????maybe, I hope...
I was just wondering if anyone had done this already...I know it's a long shot but hey I took a shot...if not I need to get a cable but the extra dough is just not there at the moment...
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I'd really doubt it.
Every manufacturer like to key things so that they don't interchange.
Long term, it's best to do things right once. I've been down the road of allows having to upgrade, and tried the cheap way first, while it spread the costs out some, it was more expensive long term.

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