Mindfield Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Okay. Got myself a nice Atari Portfolio setup recently, and it came with pretty much everything I need -- CIB PoFo, CIB parallel adapter, 64k memory card, stuff like that. It even came with the parallel cable used for connecting to printers or transferring data back and forth between a PC and the PoFo. Only problem is, it's a DB25 Male to Centronics cable. So, from the research I've done on the few web sites I could goggle up that dealt with more technical aspects of the PoFo, I need one of two things: 1. A Centronics female to DB25 male adapter, or 2. A DB25 male to DB25 male "straight through" cable. Now, I know the concept of "straight through" cables as they apply to RJ45s (straight through vs. twisted pair) so I presume a similar parallel (sorry) exists for parallel cables, too; I've never encountered it before, but that's not entirely surprising. Now, I have a DB25 male to DB25 male cable here, but it doesn't work, so I presume that either it's not a straight through cable, or possibly I have to set the printer port up differently in BIOS (EPP vs. ECP), and perhaps that's not cool with the PoFo and accompanying file transfer software). Maybe both. Whatever the case, I really wanna get my PC and the PoFo talking, so if anyone has one or both of the above items lying around in a junk box, let me know if you wanna part with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTiger Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 like these? http://www.cablesnmor.com/db25-cables.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 like these?http://www.cablesnmor.com/db25-cables.html That would be it; DB25M to DB25M straight through. Now, if I can find one that accepts PayPal or 2600 carts in trade... :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTiger Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 I had my hand on one here just a moment ago, swore mine had pink 'insides' (ok not inside, just the part that would not be visable when in use) ...let me look some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTiger Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Actually so far I have a DB25->DB25 Male -> female, and a DB25-> IEEE male-> female. IF you get no other takers I'll still keep my eyes opened...(just got boinked on the head by a falling curtain rod (metal). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTiger Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Found one Pm comming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTiger Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 Hello? Calling Mindfield... You need this thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted January 2, 2005 Author Share Posted January 2, 2005 lol, sorry... yes, I do. I was trying to find out if I had (or could win) a spare Adventure cart. :-) (No luck yet...) 'Course I could always just pay you for it. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTiger Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 We can do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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