--- On Mon, 1/4/10, Elliott Price <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Elliott Price <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Mac Classic - A few questions
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 11:26 AM
>
>
> > never heard of a SCSI-like connector on an
> Imagewriter... less its a PC-style parallel port? i thought
> they had just a little round plug that matches the Mac's
> serial ports. then again, i never had an Imagewriter, only a
> Stylewriter (serial inkjet)
>
> Nope; it's definitely a SCSI-type port, I plugged a SCSI
> cable into it... I might just try that, and see if the
> Classic will recognize it... Although I somehow doubt it.
> Mactracker says it has a serial connection.
In ye olden days of personal computers, serial ports used a 25 pin connector.
Then some smart person figured out that the RS-232 and RS-242 protocols didn't
need anywhere near that many pins and produced the 9 pin serial port (used on
PCs and many not-Mac computers) while Apple had to "Think Different" and use
RS-242 with the round mini DIN connector.
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