Re: Apple IIe internal parallel port

[datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Jun 20, 9:49 pm, Jerry <awande...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> datajerk <dataj...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Jun 20, 7:37 pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 06/20/2011 05:46 PM, datajerk wrote:
>
> >> > I'd like to mount a DB25 parallel port on the back of my IIe with a
> >> > short cable to the printer card similar to what I have done with my
> >> > SSC card.  It is a standard part?  Hints on where I can get one?
>
> >> A DB-25M/F is about as standard as they get.  What isn't necessarily standard
> >> is the pinout on the card itself.  Which adapter are you using?
>
> > I was afraid of that.
>
> > Perisoft, Inc. Printer Link.  I have no docs or pin-outs either.
>
> Do you have the original cable from the printer card with the Centronics
> connector at the printer end?

Found it.

> If you have that, and a multimeter, it should be a few minutes with the
> meter, a pencil and paper, and you'll know the pinout at the interface
> card end.  From that, you know the standard DB-25 pinout, so you can
> make/acquire the right cable.

Yep, I figured that would be the worse case scenario.  I'll order a
DB-25 female with solder cups.  I'd prefer to not butcher up the
original cable, so, any pointers to a 20C ribbon cable with connector?

Thanks.