Re: Apple IIe internal parallel port

[datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Jun 21, 6:46 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> datajerk wrote:
> > On Jun 20, 9:49 pm, Jerry <awande...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> >>datajerk <dataj...@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?
>
> > Found it.
>
> >>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.
>
> > Yep, I figured that would be the worse case scenario.  I'll order a
> > DB-25 female with solder cups.  I'd prefer to not butcher up the
> > original cable, so, any pointers to a 20C ribbon cable with connector?
>
> PCs with floppies had such cables.

Excellent, thanks for the tip.

> I presume that you intend to wire the socket so that a conventional
> PC printer cable will work to connect it to a printer.

Exactly.  That is assuming that my Apple Printer with Centronics
parallel port is also conventional.