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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!jpradley!rodd
- From: rodd@jpradley.jpr.com (Rod Dorman)
- Subject: Re: need help with A1000 > Printer cable
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 20:46:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan01.204640.26281@jpradley.jpr.com>
- References: <C00BsD.FHJ@rahul.net>
- Organization: Unix in NYC
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- In article <C00BsD.FHJ@rahul.net> harlock@rahul.net (Mike Harlock) writes:
- >HiLo. The printer cable on my friend's 1000 recently went bad (it was
- >a cheap hack job from a local amiga dealer), so for christmas, I went out
- >and bought him a regular cable with a gender changer on it, figuring that
- >would do. Bzzt. Wrong! When he plugged everything in and turned on the
- >computer, the computer just hung there...blank (black) screen...didn't even
- >get to the kickstart requester.
- >
- > is it some wire that needs to be cut or jumped in the cable? If so, I can
- >perform that operation myself. Please advise. thanks.
-
- To convert the A1000's parallel pinout to the "defacto standard"
- pinout wire up two female DB25 connectors with everything straight
- thru EXCEPT for crossing:
- pins 14 and 23 (GND & +5)
- pins 16 and 25 (GND & Reset)
- pins 15 and 24 (GND & NC)
-
- This will result in a symetrical converter.
- --
- -- Rod --
- rodd@jpr.com
-