APPLE IIe Cable Question - Please help!!!

[cudasales]

I received an Apple IIe Computer System today and there is a cable that I have no clue to what it goes to.

It has a 25pin Male Connector on one side and what looks like a PS2 Connector with 8 Male pins on the other side. There is a sticker on the cable that says IIe and has some other writing that has worn off.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks :D

 

[david__schmidt]

It has a 25pin Male Connector on one side and what looks like a PS2 Connector with 8 Male pins on the other side. There is a sticker on the cable that says IIe and has some other writing that has worn off.

It's an ImageWriter II cable. It would connect between a Super Serial card and a serial ImageWriter II. In non-Apple terms, it's a null modem cable with Mini-DIN8 and DB25 connectors.

 

[fred3rd]

I believe the same cable is also used to connect a modem (external of course).

 

[cudasales]

Thanks for the Replies!

 

[david__schmidt]

I believe the same cable is also used to connect a modem (external of course).

It would look the same... but tx and rx would be opposite (than for a printer cable). That's the difference between a "Printer" and a "Modem" cable, in Apple's parlance... the difference between a null modem and a straight-through cable. Without a voltmeter, I suppose we wouldn't actually know which it was. Is there any iconography on the Mini-DIN8 connector?