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From: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: AT -> Diablo 630 Parallel cables?
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Date: 28 Mar 89 23:07:26 GMT
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I'm in the process of getting rid of a computing dinosaur, an old CP/M
system whose only salvagable component is a Diablo 630 printer.
I need some help with trying to get a cable to connect it to a
386 clone we recently acquired (a Northgate, 20 MHz-- very nice, as far
as we can tell, by the way).  It's got a parallel port on the back which
uses a connector which very much resembles the Centronics 36 pin
parallel connector found on, for example, an HP Laserjet,
but which uses 50 pins instead.  Unfortunately I don't have the manual
for the printer anymore, so I don't even know things like pinouts for
building a cable.

Does anyone out there have any idea where one might get a cable for such
a beastie?

-Antonio Romero    romero@confidence.princeton.edu