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| Thread ID: 125563 | 2012-07-06 01:23:00 | Anyone have a spare parallel cable of decent quality? | Agent_24 (57) | PC World Chat |
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| 1286350 | 2012-07-06 01:23:00 | I'm looking for a parallel cable - straight through - ie: DB25 on both ends (male and female) so basically like an extension cable. The thing is I need one with proper shielding and preferably the full 25 wires for full twisted-pair support of the signal lines etc. It's almost impossible to know if any you find on TradeMe will be like that or not. Anyone here got one lying about? Happy to pay if I know it's good quality. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1286351 | 2012-07-06 01:42:00 | Might have one laying about, will check my cable box | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1286352 | 2012-07-06 02:46:00 | I'v probably got several and all were PGQ. What length do you need and whereabouts in the country are you? PM me if you are too shy to post location details. :D Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1286353 | 2012-07-06 03:10:00 | PM sent ;) | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1286354 | 2012-07-06 03:57:00 | I have never seen a cable like that. What is it used for (apart from an extension cable)? | Greven (91) | ||
| 1286355 | 2012-07-06 04:02:00 | I have never seen a cable like that. What is it used for (apart from an extension cable)? They are often used also by devices other than printers |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1286356 | 2012-07-06 07:03:00 | I have never seen a cable like that. What is it used for (apart from an extension cable)? Printers, scanners, superdisks (120MB floppy), test instruments, and a few other instruments and devices that I forget now, they are long gone and the leads stored in my 'some-day, one-day, never' box. I've got a swag of obsolete leads of all descriptions including some oddities that look like parallel port printer leads but aren't. May have been for modems perhaps, they are all pre-USB functions. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1286357 | 2012-07-06 09:18:00 | If you are meaning a PC to printer parallel cable I have one that is probably over a 1m long, maybe 2m. PM me if Billy's doesn't work. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1286358 | 2012-07-07 02:51:00 | Printers, scanners, superdisks (120MB floppy), test instruments, and a few other instruments and devices that I forget now, they are long gone and the leads stored in my 'some-day, one-day, never' box. I've got a swag of obsolete leads of all descriptions including some oddities that look like parallel port printer leads but aren't. May have been for modems perhaps, they are all pre-USB functions. Cheers Billy 8-{) I'm glad I haven't encountered any of them - all the old stuff I have had to work with used standard parallel or serial cables. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 1286359 | 2012-07-07 03:15:00 | Printers, scanners, superdisks (120MB floppy), test instruments, and a few other instruments and devices that I forget now, they are long gone and the leads stored in my 'some-day, one-day, never' box. I've got a swag of obsolete leads of all descriptions including some oddities that look like parallel port printer leads but aren't. May have been for modems perhaps, they are all pre-USB functions. I forget what the cables are called but I had a parallel cable I used to network two PC. I've got an old LS120 drive stored away somewhere. Could never understand why they didn't catch on more in their day as they could read standard floppies as well. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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