[GTALUG] computer hardware testing tools.

[Karen Lewellen]

no one spoke of printer cables.
Serial connectors are 9 pin, parallel cables are 25 pin.  while old style 
printer cables use  25 pin as well, there is no, or not to my personal 
experience a 9 pin connector at all for those printer cables.
as a side note allot of external speech synthesizer hardware used  25 pin 
connectors. and lpt port allocations as well.




On Wed, 12 Jul 2023, James Knott via talk wrote:

> On 2023-07-12 13:19, Scott Allen via talk wrote:
>>  Yes, It requires a 9 pin to 25 pin serial port connector cable. Not a
>>  serial port to parallel port cable that you referenced. A serial to
>>  parallel cable would be somewhat custom and likely expensive, since it
>>  would have to contain active electronics to convert serial protocol to
>>  parallel protocol.
>
> Also, the old style 25 pin serial cable and the printer cable have opposite 
> connector genders.  The serial cable has a female connector and the printer 
> cable has a male connector.
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