[comp.sys.handhelds] Help with interfacing a 48SX

TDSTRONG@MTUS5.BITNET (Tim Strong) (06/09/90)

Hi,

   I am about to send for my 48 but I need a couple of answers first.  Any help
earns eternal gratitude (no money sorry :-) ).

   I hav access to both IBM's and Apple's.  The IBM is a friend's the Apple
is mine.  I am thinking about buying an IBM interface kit ( maybe we'll share
the cost ) and then making an adapter to make the cable fit my Apple //c port.
But I don't know anything about interfacing.  I also don't have the pinouts
for the cable at the IBM end.  My connector for the Apple//c is a 5-pin DIN.
The pin assignments are (pins numbered clockwise):

           1    DTR     Data Terminal Ready
           2    TD      Transmit Data
           3    GND     Power and Signal Common
           4    RD      Read Data
           5    DSR     Data Set Ready

I understand the cable comes with a DB-9 connector (male).  I want to rig
up a piece of cable with a femaleDB-9 on one end and a male 5-pin DIN to go
to my //c on the other.  This way I can just plug it into the cable supplied
with the interface to use my //c with kermit and just use the cable alone when
I am using the IBM.  Anyone out there who can help just email me.  Thanks.

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