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Re: Handshake cable
- Subject: Re: Handshake cable
- From: thoang@orion.oac.uci.edu (Trangdaithi Hoang)
- Date: 1995/04/24
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
- References: <3ncj6t$c5i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <3nf79f$jo4@india.lm.com>
In article <3nf79f$jo4@india.lm.com>,
Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>I guess since pin 7 on the mini 8 is not connected to pin 8 on the DB25,
>I don't have a properly wired cable. Makes me laugh, considering BOTH of
>these cables were supposed to be handshaking cables. Is there a quick
>hack I can perform, or do I just need to order a new cable, and if so,
>where? Do the Alltech cables work?
If the DB25 end has a plastic case held together by screws rather
than a molded plastic case you can take the case apart and with a
continuity checker and a soldering iron you can find and make the
necessary connections. Easy to say and easy to do, really...