Cable needed - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Aug 1998

Nope.  It's an edge card on both ends.

The one on the TRS-80 is a floppy drive-type plug, but the one on the
printer is a bit bigger (not sure how many pins).
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         -Jason
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
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  From: Tony Duell &lt;ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk&gt;
 To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
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  Subject: Re: Cable needed
 Date: Sunday, August 30, 1998 8:22 PM

    Is that the standard Model 3 printer
cable? 34 pin card edge connector -> 
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  36 pin Amphenol plug?

 If so, then it's very easy to make one. All you need is an 34 pin IDC 
 edge connector, a 36 pin IDC 'Centronics' Amphenol plug and a suitable 
 length (2m, say) of 34 pin IDC cable.

 Just crimp the connectors onto the cable, leaving the 2 end pins 
 (furthest from pin 1) of the Amphenol plug unconnected. Use the striped 
 edge of the cable for pin 1.

 I can't remeber which pin on the model 3 is pin 1, alas. You may have to 
 plug the edge connector in boths ways round until it works. Shouldn't do 
 any damage if you get it wrong.

 -tony