Strange and Possibly Wonderful Cable

5 Jan 2002

...
   If I remember correctly (it's been about 20 years),
it was part number
26-1401?  	I'd have to pull my Mod III or 4p but I believe there's a
 difference between their card edge connector for the parallel printer
 port and that of the 1000-series machines.   OK. This cable has no p/n at all.  The
card edge connector is 2.25
 inches wide, 0.5 inches thick, and shows insertion marks to a depth of
 ~0.5 inches. The female card-edge slot is 34 pins, and 1.8 inches wide. 
I'd be VERY interested in knowing WHAT differences there are. The 26-1401
fits a "standard" 34 pin card edge, just like the floppy drive (RS had
lots of problems with people connecting things to the wrong port!)

There could be pinout differences that need to be buzzed out.  

Somebody said that there were different cables for Non-Tandy
printers.  I'd be very interested in more detail on that, since the only
difference that I remember was that RS configured all of their printers
for auto LF after CR, but that they were otherwise completely
interchangeable, and "standard Centronics port".

...
  If anybody wants it, it's theirs for postage.  I
keep thinking I want a
 TRS-80, but I keep not getting one. 
It's too bad that there wasn't a VCF this year.  That's where I usually
parted with TRS-80s.

--
Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin(a)xenosoft.com

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