Path: utzoo!attcan!darkover!nebulus!druid!darcy From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Diablo 620 printer and IBM PS/2 30/286 Message-ID: <1990Jan22.110008.18884@druid.uucp> Date: 22 Jan 90 11:00:08 GMT References: <13772@s.ms.uky.edu> Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario Lines: 34 In article <13772@s.ms.uky.edu> rshelby@ms.uky.edu (Richard Shelby) writes: >In article , msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: > [...] >> 2) Does the Diablo 620 need a standard Rs-232 serial cable, or are >> some pins different, requiring a different cable? > >I'm don't know what you mean by a "standard RS-232 serial cable", but >you can get the computer and printer to communicate by using a null-modem >cable. Any decent cable supplier should have one availble or be able to >make one very quickly. If you want to make one yourself look in computer >books for diagrams or see message 47524 in this group for a schematic. > > Are you sure that message isn't your local number? If you mean my recent posting with the diagram, the message ID is <1990Jan20.125629.9392@druid.uucp>. In any case here is the diagram from that posting: 1 --- 1 2 --- 3 3 --- 2 4 --- 5 5 --- 4 6 --- 20 20 --- 6 7 --- 7 In some cases you may have to tie 6 & 8 on the same end together as well. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | Thank goodness we don't get all D'Arcy Cain Consulting | the government we pay for. West Hill, Ontario, Canada | No disclaimers. I agree with me |