[GTALUG] computer hardware testing tools.

[Scott Allen]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 at 17:44, James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> The serial cable has a female connector and
> the printer cable has a male connector.

To be precise, for a serial cable:

The PC will have a DE-9 male connector and the cable that connects to
it will have a DE-9 female connector. The PC will be wired as Data
Terminal Equipment (DTE).

The other end of the cable will have a DB-25 male connector, which
will plug into the DB-25 female connector on the Kurzweil "The Reading
Edge" reader. The reader will be wired as Data Communications
Equipment (DCE), like a telephone modem.

Occasionally you would find PCs with DB-25 male DTE serial ports,
usually on expansion cards but that is not the case in this
discussion.

-- 
Scott