Cycle Computer Corporation Sun clone board...

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Wed May 25 18:13:15 CDT 2005


> 
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 11:17 -0300, Andrew Reynolds wrote:
> > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:49:12PM +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > They also use the Sun Y serial cable that splits one DB-25 into
> > A/B serial ports, as well as an external dongle for audio. The other DB-25 is
> > a parallel port. 
> 
> Heh, so I just discovered. The parallel port lines up with what's
> labelled as Serial port A on the back of the case :-(
> 
> Luckily I don't think I've destroyed any serial hardware on the PC I was
> using as a terminal! I think it's stuck trying to do a network boot at

I would be suprised if you had. Serial ports don't normally mind TTL 
levels applied to them. But the TTL parallel port on the Sparc board 
probablyt didn't like RS232 levels. How much damage has been done remains 
to be seen I gures.


-tony



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