Re: HELP:Trouble in connecting btw GS and PC

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"leo Jang" <leo802@nuri.net> wrote:

>Hi, there...I'm stucked while I'm trying to transmit data from PC to GS at
>the first step...please help me out..
>
>I've got a ADT-GS and I tried to find adapter to connect GS serial cable to
>PC side COM port...but, hard to find such adapter around my area still...So,
>I decided to make one for myself..
>
>Does anybody know connection spec(info to connect lines) between GS serial
>cable and PC side COM port ?
>
>I know that Mac store is around my place..so, is there any possiblilty of
>borrowing exact adapter from Mac parts(or any modification)?
>
>Basically, I am not sure I have high speed modem cable or not..what I've got
>is a printer cable..Is this same as that?

Go to the Mac store and buy a Mac to RS-232 modem cable.
Macs and IIGSes use the same cables.  The Mac end plugs
into the IIGS.  The modem end is where you'd attach your
null modem adapter, available in most PC stores.  Then you'd
simply attach a PC modem cable to the adapter and plug
the other end into your PC.

You can save a step if you can find a Mac to ImageWriter I
(not ImageWriter II) cable because Mac and IIGS printer
cables are actually modem cables with null modem adapters
built in.  However, since the ImageWriter I was a very very
old printer, this cable might be hard to find.  If you can find
a Mac to ImageWriter I cable, then you will not need a
separate null modem adapter at all.