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?

IIGS and Macs use the same serial cables.  Therefore, simply
go to the Mac store and get a Mac to Hayes Compatible
Modem cable.  Then go to any PC store and get a null
modem adapter.  Plug the Mac end of the cable into the IIGS
and the modem end to the null modem adapter.  Then
simply connect a PC modem cable to the adapter and the
PC end of the PC modem cable to the PC.

Your printer cable might work too.  Printer cables on an
Apple IIGS (or Mac) are really modem cables with internal
null modems, so with such a cable you can skip the
adapter.  It depends on what kind of plug is on the printer
end, though.  If it is for an ImageWriter I, you are set.  If
it is for an ImageWriter II, the plug will not be right to
connect to the PC.