Mitchell Spector wrote:
Steven Lichter <DieSpammer@Ikillspammers.com> wrote:Michael J. Mahon wrote:Mitchell Spector wrote:It'll physically fit and be identical to the RamFAST cabling, but before using it BE SURE the pinouts are the same. Can anyoneverify if a PC parallel port cable was a plain straigh-thru?Yes. Except for the "floppy twist" cable, virtually all PC cables are striaght-through (as are most Apple II cables).That is nice to know.There's still the matter of the pinouts on the RamFAST end (IDC-26), but I would be surprised if it were not a straight-through cable. In other-words it's very likely to work but no guarantee.
The reason that straight-through is a reasonable expectation is that the cable is a ribbon cable. There are really only two "easy" ways to attach IDC connectors to a ribbon cable. Since virtually all cable makers align the marked "#1" edge of the cable with the "pin 1" side of the connectors (cutting off any odd wire from the other side) this "easy" case has become the standard. There certainly are cases of split, twisted, and even random-wired cables, but designers try to avoid them like the plague. -michael New, faster SUDOKU v2.0 solver for Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."