Re: Help needed with IIC connectors

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <55fem7$992@defiant.america.com>,
Conrad Hoffman <hoff@america.com> wrote:
>Can you help me with the following questions about the connectors on
>the back of an Apple IIC?

>1. Is the 5 pin DIN printer port a parallel port?

   Nope. Serial. See http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/pinouts.html
for which pin is which, etc.

>2. If I had the right cable would this port work a Silver Reed printer
>which requires a parellel port?

   There are some erial <-> parallel translator boxes, so with one of
those and the right cables, you could physically connect the two. If
the Silver Reed printer can take ascii input and act like a general
dot matrix printer, you can probably use it from a lot of Apple II
programs. If it's more complicated (Postscript, PCL*, Quickdraw, or
more obscure oddball variant) you'll have more problems.

>3. There is a 5 pin DIN serial modem port and right next to it is a
>port that looks like a serial port for a mouse or or serial printer.
>Are these 2 ports the same or does the IIC have two serial ports.

   Yes, both are serial.

Nathan Mates
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