Re: HWHS cable from Quality Computers...

[grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)]

In article <25JAN199421063623@pavo.concordia.ca> sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:
>	I just recently discovered Quality Computers carries 
>hardware handshaking cables (8pin-miniDIN-to-DB25). This is the
>cable required to use high-speed modems on an Apple IIgs, as
>well, I've heard, connect an ImageWriter II printer to an IBM PC.
>When I called up a QC representative, I was told they also sell
>this cable as a Macintosh modem-cable, and there's _no_ difference
>between a "Mac" and "IIgs" HWHS cable...

     Be careful what you say here, since NOT ALL Mac HWHS cables have the
correct pinouts for IIgs applications.


>..I need this cable to use with a 14.4k modem on my two IIGSes, as
>well as connecting it to an ImageWriter II on an IBM 486. Can someone
>tell me if this cable will do the trick? I'd just like to verify this
>before rushing out and buying it. I may be wrong, but I could have
>sworn someone telling me the pinouts were slightly different on a Mac
>HWHS cable....

     If it's the same as the Intrec IIgs High-Speed cable, then it will
work.  You will still need a null-modem adpater to use this as a printer
cable to the PeeCee.  (This also provides the added capability of direct
serial transfers between the two machines.)

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