Re: Looking for Cable

[Kent Squires <squires@uiuc.edu>]

dynasor@infi.net (Dennis McClain-Furmanski) wrote:
>
> I got an Okidata OL400e laser printer today, and found it has both parallel
> and serial ports with intelligent switching. I have the parallel hooked to
> the DOS box's LPT1, and I'd like to hook the serial to the IIgs. What I need
> is a cable to go from the mini-din printer port to a DB-9 serial connector.
> Anyone know where I might find such a beast? The place I got the printer had
> Macs, but they knew absolutely nothing regarding Apple-to-anything-but-Apple
> equipment. In fact he told me the printer had only a parallel port. Tis the
> age of Doofuses at CompUSA.

Those dumbasses.  Probably what you'll need to do is get the 
Imagewriter 1 cable witch goes from DIN 8 to DB25, and just get a
DB25 to DB9 converter.  I use the OL400, which originally came with
a parallel port, but I bought the serial port (it's a DB25 on the
plain 400) and replaced the parallel port on the printer. To make
it nice and short, I use a Mac to IW 1 cable to connect my GS to
my OL400, so I see no reason why you couldn't use the same, and just
use a DB25 to DB9 converter.