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to: ANDY BALL
from: JEAN PARROT
date: 2004-10-26 10:08:00
subject: Mini-DIN 8 serial ports

Hello Andy, we were saying ! 

 AB> I've seen USB to Mini-DIN 8 serialadaptors for sale.  Although
 AB> these were probably developed to let people use
 AB> their existing Mac serial port devices with Macs that are USB-only, I
 AB> wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that one of those along with an
 AB> off-the-shelf Mac printer cable would let a PC drive a Mac printer.

        That was a very nice post, Andy. No M*c here. But I do use an
 adapter from USB to DIN for my mouse on a Thinkpad. The mouse is USB
 into the DIN on the Thinkpad. This way, I still have the two USB
 ports open for other devices, a printer and a card reader. The best
 of three worlds !  I have not tested if any other device, USB, could
 be connected this way. Sorry, yes I did. I connected the USB printer
 to that DIN socket and it did not work, I guess that it needs  a +5v
 current to work.

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