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From: huilin@hpindda.HP.COM (Hui Lin Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help needed in making a serial printer cable.
Message-ID: <40970016@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 89 23:16:19 GMT
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/ 0rrodrig@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Russ Rodriguez) / 11:35 pm  Jul 31, 1989 /
writes:
>I am in need of directions on how to connect the 25-pin printer port
>on an IBM PS2 model 70 to a serial printer interface on a printer.  I was
>under the impression that it worked this way:
{stuff deleted}

The printer port on PCs and PS/2s (I think) are parallel ports.
The sure way of confirming it is the sex of the connector.
Serial ports have male connectors (pins sticking out).  Parallel
ports are female (sockets).  As such you can't hook the printer
port up to a serial printer.  The correct cable for the printer
port would have a male 25 way D-type connector at one end and an
Amphenol connector (for the parallel Centronics interface) at the
other.

Hui-Lin Lim
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