Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Diablo 620 printer and IBM PS/2 30/286 Message-ID: Date: 19 Jan 90 20:08:21 GMT Reply-To: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Organization: Rutgers - The Police State of New Jersey Lines: 16 We have a printer which we believe is a Diablo 620 (from the name plate) which WANG has slapped their name on. We want to hook it up to a PS/2 30/286 as a serial printer. Two questions come up. 1) Is the PS/2 30/286 25-pin serial port COM1 or COM2? 2) Does the Diablo 620 need a standard Rs-232 serial cable, or are some pins different, requiring a different cable? Thanks for your help. Mark -- Mark Smith, KNJ2LH All Rights Reserved RPO 1604 You may redistribute this article only if those who P.O. Box 5063 receive it may do so freely. New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5063 msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu