Re: Unidentified card

[foegelle@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Foegelle)]

In article <4jamis$gah@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Dave Althoff <dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
>Mike Sentlinger (none@awinc.com) wrote:
>: 	I have an apple iigs which I recently picked up, in it, there is a 
>: card marked "APL B""SP-201-EP-O". There are no other interfaces on it but a 
>: 20-pin male conector on the circuit board, to which was connected a cable with 
>: a printer interface on its end. For this reason, I assumed it was a printer 
>: card. I hooked up a raven printer to it (we normally use it on our IBM) but it 
>: won't prime it when I boot up. The card was in slot 5 when I got the computer. 
>: Does anyone know what kind of card this is? Can I use an IBM printer with my 
>: iigs? Is it something I'm doing wrong? Thanks. Gabe.   msentlin@awinc.com
>
>In other words, the cable has the Centronics-36 connector on the end?
>
>This may well be an Epson APL board, a parallel interface card.
>

Actually, more likely than not that's a super serial card.  (Although
why you'd need a THIRD serial card in a GS, I'm not quite sure.)  To
IBM users, the printer connection on the PC is a female DB-25 (ala
a serial connector to the Apple users).  It could also be a SCSI card
which also uses a female DB-25, and is again something most IBM users
are unfamiliar with, although most IBM cards also use DB-25f for 
SCSI unless they're SCSI-II Fast.  (BTW, the IBM serial port is either
a 25 pin male or a 9 pin female DB connector..)

Michael Foegelle


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