Re: (no subject)

[kgagne@iii1.iii.net (Ken Gagne)]

Carl Bosworth (cbosworth) wrote:
:   I want to connect an Imagewriter II printer to an IBM PC so I can 
: print to it from Word Perfect.  Any suggestions as far as cable 
: requirements etc. would be appreciated. 

Don't know where I picked this up:
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Yes...ladies and gentleman at long last the pinouts for a
"WORKING" cable that will connect an IBM machine to an
Apple Imagewriter 2 printer.  Amaaazing!!!!
 
I have made and tested several of these cables all with no
problems.  In no time you'll be printing from
Wordperfect,Lotus,PrintShop and other DOS programs.
 
I don't run windows so I have no clue if it will work from
any windows based programs.
 
 
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RS-232 Female                               Mini-Din-8 male
-----------------------------------------------------------
 
 
Pin 1 --------------------------------------- Ground shield
Pin 2 --------------------------------------- Pin 5
Pin 3 --------------------------------------- Pin 3
Pin 5 -----|\
Pin 6 -----|--------------------------------- Pin 1
Pin 8 -----|/
                                      /|----- Pin 4
Pin 7 ---------------------------------|
                                      \|----- Pin 8
 
Pin 20 -------------------------------------- Pin 2
 
 
 
 
The only thing you need to do now is attach your cable to
the COM1 port of your MS-DOS machine and add these lines to
your autoexec.bat program.
 
mode lpt1:=com1
mode com1:96,n,8,1
 
 
 
If your using COM2:
 
mode lpt1:=com2
mode com2:96,n,8,1