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Offline shipoin_97

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Serial Cable?
« on: November 24, 2005, 08:45:35 AM »
fRIENDS,

Is serial cable  means Straight Cable? Plz tell me about me.......

Offline Ricky

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Serial Cable?
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2005, 06:17:53 AM »
Well.. serial cables are basically 9 pin cables, they are called serial cables as they transmit 1 byte of data each time divided in series of 8 bits.

BTW.. see this link also :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_cable