From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lakecmmtao01.coxmail.com ([68.99.120.68]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CKhNB-0001RP-00 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:09:13 -0400 Received: from DJTWWQ41 ([68.225.88.38]) by lakecmmtao01.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with SMTP id <20041021180821.PCVG3551.lakecmmtao01.coxmail.com@DJTWWQ41> for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:08:21 -0400 Message-ID: <005801c4b798$f18936b0$6401a8c0@DJTWWQ41> From: "John McCann" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20041021173057.GA24845@romuald.net.eu.org> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:08:15 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Subject: Re: strange cable X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:09:18 -0000 Hi Greg: Okay, it probably can be used for any number of things, but, as a radio amateur / scanner enthusiast, I have most often seen cables such as these in connection (no pun intended) with software programs that allow you to download frequency and configuration information. The Icom CI5 standard comes to mind, though, having been away from the aforementioned hobbies now for some time, I dare say that that standard has been superceded by something newer...computer technology being what it is. Sorry I can't be of more help, but, to state the patently obvious, whatever is on the "one eighths inch" end of the connection is a device which is expecting to see serially-transmitted ASCII data at some voltage level or another. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" To: Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 1:30 PM Subject: strange cable > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > I just found this strange cable here. One end is a standard 9-pin > serial port connector, and the other end is what looks like a 1/8 inch > standard headphone connector. > > Does anyone know what this is used for? I thought that it might be > used to do backups onto a tape via a serial port maybe, but I didn't > want to plug one end into a serial port, and the other end into a > microphone jack of a tape player, and risk frying one or both > devices. BTW, the serial port end does in fact plug into a serial port > just fine, and the headphone end plugs into a headphone socket on a > tape player, or any other device with a headphone jack just fine as > well. Thanks. > > Greg > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBd/JQ7s9z/XlyUyARAqtaAJ42KPSaum9eYGV+iD8o9GrhmV03FQCeMxF+ > FmqGCBFX96COezIuV80OJ7I= > =QXVr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >