[GTALUG] computer hardware testing tools.

[James Knott]

On 2023-07-12 18:18, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> 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. 

I thought you mentioned a parallel port in your first message and in a 
reply to me you said "connects via serial port on the computer, to a 
parallel port on the back of the reading edge".  I suspect you got 
confused because while printer ports, on computers, are 25 pin, serial 
ports, while currently 9 pin, used to be 25 pin.  I then mentioned 
gender, so you could tell one from the other by touch.