Re: Are AppleIIe 9 pin connectors standard RS232?

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <199709130255351592491@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>,
David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

>> >Can someone tell me if the Apple IIe 9 pin connectors found at the
>> >back of the computer a standard RS232 port?
>> 
>>    Despite Apple's best attempts to confuse people by using a
>> connector normally used by RS232 ports,
>
>In which universe?  The only devices I've seen that use a 9-pin female D
>connector for a serial port are the early Macs (128, 512) and some
>pocket modems.
>
>The PC uses either a 25 or 9 pin MALE connector.

Not to mention how every Apple II box with the 9 pin joystick port has a
little paddle or joystick icon next to it to identify the port. Anyone who 
can botch that is in a bad way.

>Now, the various uses of the DB-25 are another matter - one machine
>could have a serial port, parallel port, SCSI port and ProFile drive
>interface all with the same female 25-pin connector (not that this
>particular combination is very likely, and at least the ProFile card
>deliberately blocks pin 7 so you cannot accidentally plug a serial cable
>into it).

I thought most parallel ports had a Centronics 36 pin jobber. But anyway,
it seems that if you have the savvy to install cards, you can also keep
track of which port is what. You'll notice that on all Apple boxes, the
built in ports have icons to identify them.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com