Re: Mystery IIe card

[Doug Browning <vgt507@freenet.mb.ca>]

The serial port on my ssb is exactly the same as the lpt port of a pc... 
Talk about confusion...

Doug Browning
vgt507@freenet.mb.ca
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/~vgt507

On 14 Jun 1997, Nathan Mates wrote:

> In article <866252003.574895@moon.aa.net>,
> G. Johnson or K. Hartman <taxman@aa.net> wrote:
> >One of them had a card in it labeled something to the extent of
> >"Parallel Interface". It had a conector that took up on of those big
> >connector holes in the back of the IIe. The connector looked like a
> >Mac SCSI connector. Any help on what this does is appreciated.
> 
>    A DB25 female connector may be a Mac-type SCSI connector, or a
> parallel interface, just as the card says. [When in doubt, trust the
> markings on the card much more than what other companies may try and
> establish as a "standard." There's not exactly a shortage of possible
> connector types, but Apple's got a bad habit of making connectors have
> the same type as totally unrelated connectors on other platforms,
> confusing folks.]
> 
>    This is probably quite a no-brainer, but I'd say you have a
> parallel interface card, handy for connecting to parallel printers.
> 
> Nathan Mates
> 
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