BBC Micro to Desktop Cable

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If you use the Z88 9 way male to 25 way female cable, you will need to use a 25 to 9 way adapter to use the 9 pin plug on the modern Desktops or USB Adapters.. Please ensure that all the 9 way pins are connected. Some adapters only connect 3 of the pins, sometimes the only way to tell is to buy one and test the connections with a meter before use.

Z88 - 2 Speed Operation

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The speed of the transfer depends on the following:-

Popdown	Normal 9600 BPS		OZ	Full 38400 BPS
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The desktop end of Eazylink2 (v1.0 B6 and later) has been changed allowing faster communication to be achieved using OZ 4.5 or above.

Eazylink Popdown

Existing Mac & PC Link II Users

If you have an existing copy of

• PC Link II, the PC to Z88 cable can be used. 
• Mac Link, the Mac to Z88 cable could be modified by cutting off the 8 pin DIN plug and fitting a 9 way 'D' plug. In practise, this may be discarded and a PC to Z88 cable would be needed separately

The 32K EPROM may be reprogrammed to store the Eazylink popdown.

Contact Rakewell for details.

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PC Link II mode

PC Link II Protocol		Eazylink popdown		EazyLink2 Desktop Client
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Display (bottom left-hand corner) showing 9600 Baud rate and PC Link II mode.

OZ 4.5

Eazylink is included in the suite of applications so no additional cards are required.

OZ mode

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Desktop

RS-232 Serial Port

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	Hardware	USB Serial Cables
	RS-232
	PCI2S550 or other RS-232 H/W	FT232R	FT232R CHIPI-X10 Product Identifier: 24597 Vendor Identifier: 1027	FT232R P24577 V1027	CH340 P29987 V6790	PL2303 HXD HX Rev D)	PL2303RA P8963 V1659	USA-19HS USA-49WG D:Keyspan USB Serial Port  M: Keyspan
Drivers
MAC Signed Driver
Driver comments			Mac OSX: VCP 2.2.18 Linux / rPi: Built-in					Linux / rPi: Built-in
Suppliers
OS									USER REPORT
x86_64									VG
x86_64	not avail.								GS
x386 / x86_64									GS
Arm 32bit									GS
(x86_64)									VG
x86_64									VG
x386									VG GS
Price 26 Jun 2014		£8.32			£2.21	£11.59		£26.02	VG
Price 30 Jun 2015	£26.25	£6.95 +£9.95	£12.36 + Post	£10.99	£1.37	£12.95	£7.49	£25.86	VG
Price 09 Feb 2016	£19.11	£6.45 +£9.95	£10.03 + Post	£10.99	£1.49	£14.95	£7.49	£26.10	VG

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Hardware	USB Serial Cables
	RS-232
	PCI2S550 or other RS-232 H/W	FT232R	FT232R CHIPI-X10 P24597 V1027	FT232R P24577 V1027	CH340 P29987 V6790	PL2303 HXD HX Rev D)	PL2303RA P8963 V1659	USA-19HS USA-49WG D:Keyspan USB Serial Port  M: Keyspan
OS									USER REPORT
OS X 10.11 (x86_64)	not avail.								VG
x386 / x86_64
Arm 32bit
(x86_64)									VG
x86_64									VG
x386

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