At 21:35 -0500 12/13/05, Dominic F. Manno wrote:
After my printer died recently, I was given an old laser printer, an
NEC SilentWriter LC890. It powers up when plugged in, and I have the
driver for it. What I need is a cable to connect it to my beige G3
running OS 9.2.2.
Centronics I/F
This is an Amphenol blue ribbon connector for a peecee parallel port. NG to you
, RS-232,
This is almost surely a standard 25 pin RS232 port which you could
use from a single computer with a modem or serial printer cable.
They're different. The RS 232 standard guarantees that there is no
way to misconnect it that will cause harm. Not so for RS422 and
parallel.
RS-422 I/F , and Apple LocalTalk I/F
This is probably the 9 pin D connector. AppleTalk does use RS422 comm
levels on serial ports. The pinout from the older Macs - 128k - are
probably in use but there is no standard pinout for RS422.
If you can come up with the pin assignments for the RS422 connector
it's pretty easy to pick up an Apple serial cable and cut one end
off. Soldering to the pins on a 9 pin D connector is not so hard.
Google for the printer part number and get the pin assignments.
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