Re: Cable question...

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

Bill Garber wrote:

>"Jeff Thomas" <a2forever@usa.net> wrote in message
>3EFFE6B0.B5DCBD13@usa.net">news:3EFFE6B0.B5DCBD13@usa.net...
>> 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.

-michael

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