Re: [expert] Serial link

[Axalon]

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote:

> 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....
> 

Requires cards, the other just ports. which is more standard? ;)