Mac serial Printer cables use a mini-DIN8 connector, with 8 pins.
When Apple introduced the "Geoport", they added a 9th pin, which supplies
power to the connected device. That 9th pin is not used for any printers,
as far as I know.
Rob
>
>Greetings,
>
>Newbie question. New Macintosh user. Stuff
>you will know the answer to :)
>
>Above represents, roughly, the serial port
>on the back of my Macintosh Performa 636CD.
>I notice that the third row of pins from
>the top row are 4 in number. But the serial
>cable I purchased for connecting a Macintosh
>StyleWriter II has but three pins in that row.
>Even so, the cable fits the serial port. Is
>it routine that one pin is not used? Or?
[snip!]
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