Re: Cable question...

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber replied:

>> >> I have a printer cable connected to the back of a Apple II Super Serial
>> >> card with DB25 male connector and a mini-8 connector for the Apple
>> >> ImageWriter II printer. Could I safely use this cable connecting the
>> >> mini-8 connector to the communications port of the Macintosh Plus? I
>> >> know, the pin assignments for the printer and modem ports on the
>> >> Macintosh Plus are the same.
>> >
>> >Absolutely, but you need to set the jumper block on the SSC
>> >to terminal, I think, to make it a null-modem connection. ;-)
>>
>> If it's a printer cable, then it's already a null-modem cable.
>
>This is true Michael, but I didn't say null-modem cable, what I said was
>quote me now, "null-modem CONNECTION". Now could you tell us
>if I'm right, or does it need to be set to modem so the man can get on
>with what he's trying to do.

Since the cable is a null-modem cable, the SSC should not be
set to also do the null-modem transmit/receive swap, which
would just undo the swap in the cable.

If the SSC is labeled logically, that means that it should be
set in the same way that it would be set to communicate
with a modem.

-michael

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