Re: Apple lle boot diskettes - Help!

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Linards Ticmanis" <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote in message news:
4d95ef22$0$7665$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net...
> On 03/28/11 20:29, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Bettablue wrote:
>>
>>> I really want to thank you for that info.  I currently
>>> don't have any cards in the computer that it didn't come
>>> with, so the super serial and null modem cable will be
>>> something I'll be looking for.  Actually I need 2 null
>>> cables.  One for an IBM 5150 I just purchased.
>>
>> I think the only diff should be that the 5150's serial
>> card has the opposite gender of the Apple's.
>
> If so, a gender changer should fix the situation.
>
> Hint: If you get a serial card for the Apple, you need to
> make sure that the detachable "tail", which connects to the
> card inside the computer case and ends in the actual DB-25
> port on the outside, is present. Remember Apple cards don't
> integrate themselves directly into the back of the computer,
> so they often need such attachments, which tend to get separated
> from the cards themselves when non-expert people deal with the
> hardware, for example selling stuff bit by bit.
>
> Building such a "tail" for the Super Serial card isn't all that
> hard, but it's unnecessary work if you look at what you get.

Dongles from old PCs also work and come with the female connector
as well, which automatically alleviates the gender problem on the
IBM 5150. I have a bag full of those someplace, so unless you want
one really badly, I could dig them out.

Bill