Date   : Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:58:28 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: XFER v4 problem

In article <3F843B9B.3020905@...>, David Devenport
<dave@...> writes

>I don't know if this helps, but when I wrote my emulator I linked my pc 
>to BBC via a serial cable,
>the BBC could talk (transmit) to the PC fine, but WOULD NOT under any 
>circumstances receive anything
>transmitted from the PC.

You wired the handshaking pins wrong at the PC end, so the PC couldn't
transmit.

> I put this down to the different voltage levels 
>from RS232->RS423.

No, they're perfectly compatible.

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