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Subject: Re: Looking for Novag Sapphire/Diamond/UCB serial port pinout

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 10:24:15 09/09/98

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On September 08, 1998 at 16:30:12, Ian Osgood wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I have a question for owners of the Novag Diamond II, Sapphire II, Universal
>Chess Board (UCB) or Novag Distributor.
>
>Can anyone provide me a pinout of the serial port on any of these items?  Even
>better would be the pinout of the cables used to connect the Sapphire/Diamond to
>the UCB, or the UCB to a PC serial port.  (I would like a description of the
>connectors on each end and a map of which pin on one end is connected to each
>pin on the other end.  This is easily determined using a multimeter.)  It would
>be sufficient know whether the connector for the UCB is identical to that of the
>Sapphire or Diamond.

I don't think so, since the Sapphire or Diamond require the Novag Distributor in
order to connect to a PC, while the UCB does not.  I am assuming that the UCB
contains some of the interface circutry contained in the Distributor.



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