Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!decwrl!apple!mattd
From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Apple II <-> HP48
Message-ID: <45490@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 90 17:36:44 GMT
References: <34677@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <34677@cup.portal.com> jpser@cup.portal.com (John Paul Serafin) writes:
>Someone had a question a while back about connecting an Apple II to the
>HP48.
>Our Macs at work have DB9 rs232 ports instead of whatever Apple uses.
>I bought a surplus Apple II modem cable today and successfully used it
>with my homebrew 48 cable.  The Apple II cable and the HP48 pc cable
>with the 9 to 25 pin adapter should also work.  A null modem adapter
>may or may not also be required.  The Apple II cable had a 9 pin male
>DB9 and a 25 pin male DB25.  Most pins were missing, but the required
>pins were there.
>John Serafin
>jpser@cup.portal.com
>(as to Kermit for the Apple II, beats me)

The Apple IIgs and Apple IIc Plus both have the same serial connector as the
Mac Plus (SE, SE/30, II, IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx) and the "Mac" cable works
just fine with those machines, to my knowledge.  The IIc has a weird five-pin
serial port that will need some kind of transmogrifier, and the IIe and II+
both take serial cards that usually have DB-25 connectors - Apple sells
transmogrifers for those to peripherals with 8-pin connectors, but not
transmogrifiers to convert the connector itself.  Other people make them,
though.

There is a version of Kermit (3.86) for the Apple II that is available
free - check comp.binaries.apple2 or with Columbia University.  It's also
available in many college bookstores.

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