Re: NTLK Schlumberger - NCU

From: Frédéric Pach (f.pache@skynet.be)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 14:34:01 CDT


le 1/06/2000 21:16, Laurent Daudelin à laurent_daudelin@fanniemae.com a
écrit :

> Frédéric Paché wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have now my Newton Schlumberger. Very proud but some problems with NCU.
>> I have a portable IBM 380 with Win98. I installed NCU 1.0.
>> The Newton try to connect via serial but received no answer from the PC.
>> I try in IRDA mode: the IBM sees the Newton but 1 second afterwards, the
>> Newton says that there is no answer and cut the communication.
>>
>> As I have an iMac and not my serial adapter in hand I can't try with Mac OS
>> up to now.
>
> Are you using the right serial cable to connect to your PC? If so, check the
> coms settings. Should be at 38400, on COM1 or COM2, depending on which you're
> using. On the Newton, the
> setting in the Dock/Connect app should be Serial. You can try lower speed to
> see if that works, but I would be a wrong cable. Of course, I don't know so I
> might be dead wrong for the
> cable ;-)
>
> BTW, you won't be able to use your iMac with your serial cable. Starting with
> the iMac, no Macintosh computers have a serial port anymore. You would need to
> get a USB-Serial adapter,
> like KeySpan, or go ethernet if you had a MP2x00 or eMate, but since I think I
> remember that the Schlumberger was a MP1x00 clone, the ethernet route won't
> work. So, you will have to get
> a USB-Serial adapter in the end.
>
> -Laurent.
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Thanks for your infos.
It seems the Schlum is a MP2000 clone.

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