I have 1. New: 18-foot serial cord for Commodore packaged for $21 (sticker price) and a few New 8-foot serial "extension cords" for Commodore still packaged for $9 each... I'm not sure if they ever made any longer then that.... Joseph Palumbo JP PBM Products By Mail www.jppbm.com --- On Fri, 4/3/09, Daniel Kovacs <danielkovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Daniel Kovacs <danielkovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Length of serial cable To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Received: Friday, April 3, 2009, 4:08 PM I'm building an entertainment centre in my basement with a bunch of my game systems in it, and the plan is to have my C128 on the level I can type at and the drives up on a shelf - 6-7 feet away. I only have short IEC cables, so was thinking of building my own. I haven't started anything yet. Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leif Bloomquist" <leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 11:25 AM Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Length of serial cable > I've got an IEC cable that is about 10 feet long, and it works fine. > Probably not to spec, but it does work. > > The programmer's reference guide gives timings and levels for the IEC > bus, someone could probably take those numbers to derive the maximum > allowable cable length . Or did Commodore give a spec somewhere? > > -Leif > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Tom Luff <tomluff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> How long do you need your cable??? >> Standard IEC cable for the Floppy Disk Drives are about 3 feet, for >> printers >> they can be 6 feet but are a little larger in diameter due to the thicker >> wire. Thin wires loss signal strength over greater distance. >> >> Cat 5 cable I think is alright. >> >> Tom L >> >> --- On Thu, 4/2/09, Daniel Kovacs <danielkovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> From: Daniel Kovacs <danielkovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: [torontocbm] Length of serial cable >> To: "Toronto CBM" <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Received: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 8:27 PM >> >> Hi Everyone; >> >> I'm sure this has been asked before ... >> >> How long can an IEC cable be? Has anyone here built one with cat 5 cable? >> >> Dan > > > > -- > Leif Bloomquist > leif(at)schemafactor(dot)com > http://home.ica.net/~leifb/ > > "It's better to light a candle, than curse the darkness." - Chinese > Proverb >