Re: [expert] Serial link

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> Yes but you can rig up a serial link (better yet a parallel link) with
> spare speaker wire and get better than floppy speeds with out  the floppy
> inconvienence.
> 
Ah. Ok. I can see this....however, even standard telephone
cable ought to be useable for an ethernet link between a
couple of computers in one room (assuming that's what the
original poster was talking about.) You won't get the
distance you would with CAT5 cable, but it SHOULD work....