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Chapter 3: Cable Menu Cable Tutorial
Short tutorial
Heading
First at each page there a short heading describing the cable.
Pictures of the connectors
After that there is at each page there is one or more pictures of the connectors. Sometimes
there is some question marks only. This means that I don't know what kind of connector it is
or how it looks.(To the computer)There may be some pictures I haven't drawn yet. I illustrate this with the following advanced
picture:(To the computer)Normally are one or more pictures. These are seen from the front, and NOT the soldside.
Holes (female connectors usually) are darkened. Look at the example below. The first is
a female connector and the send a male. The texts insde parentheses will tell you at which
kind of the device it will look like that.(To the Computer)(To the Printer)
Texts describing the connectors
Below the pictures there is texts that describes the connectors. Including the name of the
physical connector.25 PIN D-SUB MALE to the Computer
36 PIN CENTRONICS MALE to the Printer.Pin table
The pin table is perhaps the information you are looking for. Should be simple to read.
Contains mostly the following three columns; Name, Pin 1, Pin 2. Sometimes when not the
same pin is connected to each side there is another column describing the name at
connector 2.25-DSub36-Cen
Strobe 1 1
Data Bit 0 2 2
Data Bit 1 3 3
Data Bit 2 4 4