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From: nesbbx!billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
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Subject: Re: Gender Changer for Perfect Sound
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Date: 6 Jun 91 00:22:03 GMT
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In article <1991Jun3.194221.17605@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, Harold Ravlin writes:

> I just received a Perfect Sound digitizer I'd like to hang off my 1000.
> However, the manual says I can't use a standard gender changer but must
> use theirs. Any idea why?

	Probably because they want to make *sure* you're not getting the
wiring differences between the 1000 and 500/2000 parallel ports wrong.

> What would I have to do to convert a standard gender changer to work with
> the Perfect Sound? My guess is that at most I'd have to hack off some leads
> that carry voltage on the 1000 but not on the later models. Did any of
> the other pinout assignments change?

	If that is the case, you will need to swap 14,15,16 with 23,24,25. In
that order. That gives you as close of an exact match to the 500/2000 as
you can get.

> Thanks,
> --
> Harold Ravlin, hr@spica.astro.uiuc.edu
> U. of Illinois, Dept of Astronomy

  -Bill Seymour     nesbbx!billsey@agora.uucp or nesbbx!billsey@agora.rain.com
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