Re: [SURVPC] What could I do with a 100 foot serial cable?

[Ben A L Jemmett]

> I see someone on Ebay has a 100 foot serial cable with db25 connectors.
What could I do with it?
Not much, if I recall RS232C specs correctly.  I don't think it'd be too
happy with that much cable in there.

For parallel the limit is about 10 ft at most.  Serial is longer, but not
that long.  The signal can degrade alarmingly on unshielded cable...

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

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