Re: Apple II Csa2 FAQs: Printers, Part 18/25

[GregChi <GregChinospam@BigZoo.invalid>]

On 04 Jun 2003 11:23:50 GMT, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:

>Archive-name: apple2/faq/part18

>From: Rubywand, M Kelsey, Mark, Glynne Tolar
>
>020- How can I connect my Imagewriter II to a PC?
>
>   You can do Text printouts from your PC to IW-II by selecting the C-Itoh 8510 as your printer in Windows 3.1 up through at least ME. (Just go to settings: printers: new and select the c-itoh 8510.) The connection from the IW-II must go to a serial port-- e.g. COM-1 or COM-2.
>
>   The cabling information shown below is from the the Imagewriter II manual. It's the connection to an RS-232C port. Including pin 5 in the jumpered pins on the 25-pin side is an addition. I'm not sure how important it may be. Perhaps it is added to allow diagnostic testing.)
>
>   If you make your own, you need an 8 pin mini-DIN circular male connector, a DB25 female connector, and 5-conductor shielded cable. Up to 20 meters should be OK. 
>
>   Cable details as follows... 
>
>   8 pin               25 pin 
>
>   DTR 1 ---------   *- 5 CTS * 5,6,8 are jumpered 
>                     *- 6 DSR   together at db25 end.
>                     *- 8 DCD
>
>   DSR 2 ---------     20 DTR
>
>   TD- 3 ---------      3 RD
>
>   SG  4 **-------      7 SG 
>   RD+ 8 **
>   ** 4 and 8 are
>      jumpered 
>      together
>      at 8-pin end.
>
>   RD- 5 ---------      2 TD
>
>                        Connector SHIELD or pin 1 (PG)
>                        connected to cable shield
>                        on DB25 end. (Only one end of
>                        the cable shield needs to be
>                        connected to the connector shield.)
>
>
>     One alternative is to use a IIe (SSC) to IW-II cable (part #590-0335) plus a standard NULL modem cable plus any gender changer connector (or 25 to 9 changer) necessary to connect to the PC COM port you want.
>
>     The standard basic NULL modem 'cable' (or 'adapter')  is two Dsub 25-pin female sockets, call them "A" and "B",  wired back-to-back as follows (arrows indicate signal direction): 
>  
>
>      Socket-A            Socket-B 
>
>       TXD   2    ->      3  RXD 
>       RXD   3    <-      2  TXD 
>       RTS   4    ->      5  CTS 
>       CTS   5    <-      4  RTS 
> DSR & DCD  6&8   <-     20  DTR 
>       GND   7    --      7  GND 
>       DTR  20    ->     6&8 DSR & DCD 
>
>     The two cables (plus gender/9-pin adaptors as needed) give you the connection described in the IW-II manual.
>
>     A CrossWorks cable (plus adaptors as needed) is supposed to work, too.
>
>     Either the homebrew cable or one of the combinations of existing cables mentioned should allow a hardware handshaking connection at 9600 baud.
>
>     For the C-Itoh 8510 printer, go to "Properties" (in the Files menu). For Port settings, select the correct COM port. Data bits, parity, stop bits should be the usual 8-N-1. Speed or baud rate should be 9600. Flow control should be Hardware. On your IW-II, DIP switch 2-3 should be Up (open).
>
>
>     Yet another alternative is to use a IIgs or Mac high-speed modem cable (e.g. part 950-0109)  connected to a NULL modem plus adaptors as needed. This works fine; but, you will lose the hardware control lines and need to switch to Xon/Xoff handshaking. In "Properties", Flow control should be Xon/Xoff. On your IW-II, DIP switch 2-3 should be Down (closed).


Please add this From: quadrajet1@aol.com (Quadrajet1)

<< Thank you, Raymond
YES YES it works!! (but YOU knew that....:-)
annotated (for others??? ):
IBM 9 Pin Side               Apple Imagewriter II
2            rd                      3                 td
3            td                      5                 rd
8            cts                    1                 dtr
5            gnd                   4 and 8       gnd
1, 4 and 6   cd,dtr,dsr     2                dsr

Thanks, this doesn't correlate to the 'pattern' in the official
imagewriter II Tech Ref manual......
(anybody that doesn't have a mini DIN cable w/ 4 & 8 connected inside:
remove left leg from IWII. jumper 4 to 8...)
 >>

   Great!  You can always jumper 4 and 8 on the end of the DE9.  As
long as they are jumpered, it doesn't have to be on the actual mini
DIN8 connector itself.  Most mini DIN 8 M/M cables have all 8 wires in
them.  I used to have MD 8 M/M cables that were wired 1 to 1, etc to
use for switchboxes, etc..

Raymond

Thanx,  Greg
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