Re: Apple IIe internal parallel port

[Jerry <awanderin@yahoo.ca>]

datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 20, 7:37 pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/20/2011 05:46 PM, datajerk wrote:
>>
>> > I'd like to mount a DB25 parallel port on the back of my IIe with a
>> > short cable to the printer card similar to what I have done with my
>> > SSC card.  It is a standard part?  Hints on where I can get one?
>>
>> A DB-25M/F is about as standard as they get.  What isn't necessarily standard
>> is the pinout on the card itself.  Which adapter are you using?
>
> I was afraid of that.
>
> Perisoft, Inc. Printer Link.  I have no docs or pin-outs either.

Do you have the original cable from the printer card with the Centronics
connector at the printer end?

If you have that, and a multimeter, it should be a few minutes with the
meter, a pencil and paper, and you'll know the pinout at the interface
card end.  From that, you know the standard DB-25 pinout, so you can
make/acquire the right cable.

Just recently I was diddling around with some 26-pin-rise to DB-25
parallel port cables (to connect the riser on my newer motherboard to a
parallel port out the back), and I found there are at least two pinouts
in the collection of cables I have on hand.  Perhaps one of these
pinouts will match your card, and if you have some of these cables, your
job will be finished.


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Jerry    awanderin at yahoo dot ca