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From: "John Blackburne" <johnb@hk.super.net>
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Subject: Re: PC with stylee!
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:59:32 +0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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I was deliberately referring to the NEW G3 PowerMacs - the one's with same
bondi-blue and curvacious design of the iMac, + carrying handles, released
only a month ago. Like the iMac they do not have a standard serial port,
instead relying on USB for low-speed serial comms. You can add serial ports
via PCI or USB to them.

All older Macs have high speed serial ports, except some very old (9+ years)
Macs have slower ports limited to 9600kbps - though such models are so
limited in other ways, e.g. in maximum RAM and hard disk space, that they'd
be no good for Yaroze debugging.

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In article <1dnajal.qfxndnwl5q6eN@[194.151.88.142]>, macsuppor@a1.nl (DEnnis
Brinkhuis) wrote:

> As far as I know, G3 computers do have a serial port.. Just not iMac's
> and those other funnybox-computers..
>
>> > Yes, I'm using CW on a Mac to program my NY. But I would not wholeheartedly
>> > recommend the new G3 Macs or iMacs for this purpose as neither model has
>> > 'standard' serial ports - they both use USB instead. So to connect one of
>> > the newer Mac models to a NY you'll need some sort of USB to serial, or
>> > perhaps PCI to serial, solution.
>> >
>> > John