bcs@rti.UUCP (Betsey Crockett Shay) (10/27/89)
I am looking for two cables. If you have any extras lying around, I would love to take them off your hands: 1) to hook an Imagewriter I to an SE. The SE printer port requires the round, mini-8 type jack. The Imagewriter port is the 25-pin variety, female, requiring a 25-pin type male connector on the cable. 2) to hook a Hayes modem to the same SE. The specs are exactly the same: mini-8 at the SE end for plugging into the modem port, and a male 25-pin connector at the other end for plugging into the Hayes (female) 25-pin port. Both the modem and the printer are on loan, so I would prefer to avoid paying for brand new cables if I can help it. But are these cables so versatile that I would probably be able to use them with any other printers or modems in the future; in other words, might it be worth the investment if I can't find any used? Thanks for any help, Betsey Crockett Shay bcs@rti.rti.org
rdclark@Apple.COM (Richard Clark) (10/28/89)
When I need a modem cable, I use an old trick -- I buy an Apple IIe -> printer (ImageWriter II) cable. Yup, a printer cable. You connect it "backwards", with the 8-pin connector going to the Macintosh, and the 25-pin connector going to the modem. Or, take a look at the Apple technical notes if you need pinouts. The 8-pin connectors are hard to get, though. -- -----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Richard Clark | "If you don't know where you're going, Instructor/Designer | don't go there" -- Sybalski's Law Apple Developer University +----------------------------------------------- AppleLink, GEnie, Delphi, MCI, Internet: rdclark CI$: 71401, 2071