Re: laplink cable

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the info. I am, unfortunately, fickle, meaning I want to
try all kinds of software and driver combination. Unfortunately, no
single party had been able to enforce some kind of standard w.r.t
pinout, connector, etc, so software and drivers come with all
combinations. CCED should come up with one! I am thinking of cobbling
together a cable with a box in between with provision to quickling
change connections to reconfigure the pinout without having to open
the driver box.

I purchased a very compact "DB25 ?"(can't remember what this adaptor
was called - a little bigger than a gender changer) where one can use
little wire to plug into holes to reroute the singals from the pins
to desired ones, but it came with pin 25 permananetly connected to
pin 25 output, and I returned it.

Peter

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "James Wilsom"
<jwilson002@a...> wrote:

> I cut an old Laplink cable. I new it would come in handy for

something

> someday. This is one of the kind with a 25 pin connector at each

end not

> the 9 and 25 pin combination at each end. There are 15 conductors

in mine

> so obviuosly 10 of the pins are either dead or share a wire. Hope

this

> helps. What are you trying to do? If you are trying to go from

your

> parallel port to a controller go to Radio Shack and get some 25

conductor

> ribbon cable and some connectors and "roll your own".
>
> JIm