12 Jul
2023
12 Jul
'23
3:20 p.m.
On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 at 17:44, James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
The serial cable has a female connector and the printer cable has a male connector.
To be precise, for a serial cable: The PC will have a DE-9 male connector and the cable that connects to it will have a DE-9 female connector. The PC will be wired as Data Terminal Equipment (DTE). The other end of the cable will have a DB-25 male connector, which will plug into the DB-25 female connector on the Kurzweil "The Reading Edge" reader. The reader will be wired as Data Communications Equipment (DCE), like a telephone modem. Occasionally you would find PCs with DB-25 male DTE serial ports, usually on expansion cards but that is not the case in this discussion. -- Scott