On Sat, 23 May 1998, Charles A Davis wrote:
> RS-232, was a well accepted 'Standard'. Any time that you saw a piece of
> equipment with a DB-25 connector on it, it was almost certainly a RS-232
> connection. Then along comes 'Big Brother' (IBM) wanting to save a few
> pennies on 'printer connectors' (The Amphenol must have been _way_ more
> expensieve. But all the printer manufacturers still seem to be able to
> be able to afford it.)
>
> DB-25's that might be either a serial port, or maybe a parallel port, or
> maybe something else.
It's simple:
DB-25 male: serial port
DB-25 female: parallel port
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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