Brother IF-50?

[Michael B. Brutman]

I have one of these things in the basement.  It looks like it has a 
parallel port (Centronics) and a serial port on it.  It also has 'COPY' 
and 'SEL' membrane style buttons on front, and a what looks like a 
really weird connector with 10 pins arranged in a 'star like' 
configuration on the end of a cable that is directly attached.

 From my searching I'm guessing this is a parallel to serial (or 
vice-versa) converter marketed by Brother for it's printers.  Does 
anybody have more details?

Pictures are up on eBay at the moment - there is a recent auction.  Item 
number is 360028045061 .


Thanks,
Mike