Sure you can! (I do.) The hard part to come by isn't the cable between
the Newt and the computer, it's the dongle that turnsd the port at the top
of your Newt into an old-style Mac serial connector.
I've used both an old ImageWriter cable and two PhoneNet boxes with a 6'
length of phone cable between them.
(I recently upgraded to a g4 and retired my 8500, so now I use a Belkin
Serial->USB converter plugged into the keyboard in order to convert the
serial into USB.)
~Dustin
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
> on 06/12/01 00:06, Hal Widlansky at hal_at_whoever.com wrote:
>
> > OK, one more dumb question. I don't have a serial (Mac) cable for my newton.
> > Can I use a regular mac localtalk (serial) cable?
>
> Probably not, but you can use LocalTalk with your LocalTalk cable, unless
> you're thinking of using a usb-serial adapter in which case, I think you're
> out of luck, but I would try it anyway. You can't break anything...
>
> -Laurent.
>
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