Subj : Re: Making a Parallel Port Laplink cable
To   : Bob Worm
From : kirkspragg
Date : Sun Aug 10 2025 23:03:34

 BW> I ended up using a couple of runs of cat 5 cable for my project but I'm
 BW> not sure how a long run of parallel cable would cope with that, I
 BW> imagine not well? I suppose on the upside it wouldn't cost much to try
 BW> it out.

I might try that out, but it sounds like its gonna have issues with cross talk between the signal lines. Though maybe if I use an entire pair per signal line it will be fine? Use one cable in each pair as the signal & earth the other......

I'd need to use 5 parallel runs of cat 5 to do this though..... thats gong to be one monstrous cable! On the plus side shielded cat 5 should be easy enough to get hold of.

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