[SunRescue] Kinda off topic but...

James Lockwood lockwood at ISI.EDU
Tue Sep 7 14:18:01 CDT 1999


On Sat, 4 Sep 1999 DsaHQ at aol.com wrote:

> Okay, I think I may have figured something out, but I'm not sure if it'll 
> work.  Why I got my Sparcbook I got a cable for a printer that converts that 
> weird little mini thing to a normal printer connector.  Can I somehow use 
> this cable to convert it to hook up to a transceiver?  I know this is the 
> ghetto way, but I'm poor, so don't laugh.

No.  The printer cable is for a different port than the AUI cable, there
are two connectors on the back of a SS10/SS20 with the same form-factor.

Go to www.pimfg.com or some of the other sources people have mentioned,
$20 for the cable is cheap compared to what it used to be from Sun.

-James







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