Diacom Cable

[David Cooley]

At 09:31 PM 11/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Not only the serial vs. parallel, but I don't see how the cable can be
>considered a "copy protection mechanism".   A DB-series connector cable
>isn't patented, and if I cut the other end off and stick the right pins in
>the ALDL it's not a infrigement of any kind either.


The true diacom cable has a bit of electronics in the cable...  Nothing 
fancy or complicated, but it's more than just a patch cable.

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