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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Need to know signal designations for //e rear panel mouse conn.
Message-ID: <1411@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 20:34:07 GMT
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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A person here has asked me to connect some "game" controls designed
to plug into a //c or //e rear panel to an older ][+ machine.  The
manuals for the ][+ are pretty decent, but the books for the //e
really STINK (no pin-outs even for the external connectors!).
Heck, the old ][ manuals had the whole schematic and ROM contents.
I'd really like to strangle the editor of these //e manuals.  ~150
pages on how to use the Prodos file utility, but not even a peep
about how to do anything substantive with Prodos.  These manuals
are for a relatively old //e; hopefully apple came out with
something better after the machine was on the market for a while.
I still have the old red 8.5 by 11 inch reference book; that's my
favorite (from the days of the non-autostart F8 ROM!).

I would be most appreciative if somebody could [preferably] email or
post the pin-outs for the mouse connector.  I figured that I would
make a little pigtail to go from the DE-9P on the game control over
to the 14 pin DIP socket in the ][+.  I know the pin-outs for the
DIP socket; no problem there.

Thanks in advance,
--Bill                                                    *3D0G

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