Re: com port problem: it works on an Apple2, but not on a PC, why?

[wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)]

In article <bvf.740879651@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> bvf@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Joshua Thompson) writes:
>In <1993Jun23.215637.11124@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
>
>>Now, I wired in a female 25-pin connector in parallel and connected it to
>>a PC's serial port.  But with both the PC and the Apple running, the
>
>This implies the connector on the PC is a -male- DB-25, which is usually
>a parallel port.

Well, every printer cable I've ever seen for a PC has a male DB-25 which
plugs into a female DB-25 on the PC.  Like I said, a simple program that
echos stuff from the comm port does give wierd characters when a mouse
is plugged into this port.  I'm gonna try another PC that is doing data
acquisition duty from another machine and see how it works...