OT: <was springfield> <is data transfer via parallel port off old systems>

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 02 August 2006 05:02 pm, Don Y wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 03:24 pm, jim stephens wrote:
> >> Laplink had cables for the serial port, I don't recall if it had a
> >> parallel version that was reliable, as far as dos to dos data transfer.
> >
> > I can't speak to the reliability of it,  but it did indeed have a
> > parallel option,  which of course required a different special cable. 
> > Never used it here though.
>
> IIRC, there were two "bright colored" cables -- one for parallel
> and one for serial.
>
> I have an *8* headed "laplink" (lowercase L) cable but, IIRC,
> they are just various combinations of connectors/genders and
> pinouts (but still a serial cable).

That's a bit much.

I have a couple of 9-to-25 pin size adapters that I need to check the 
connections on,  and am not sure I have them in both genders.  And some 
connector shells that'll take a 25-pin connector at each end,  which I got 
seeing them as being handy to make adapters with.  But the need for such 
stuff never arrived,  so I never got around to building them,  except for a 
couple of gender changers.  If I ever do it'll be easy enough to have one 
test cable that's wired straight through and then make up any adapters I 
might need.

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