Anybody Seen This Cable?

[Mac128]

I'm looking for one of these old Apple serial modem cables DE-9 to DE-9. I've never actually seen one and until I found this official Apple picture, I didn't think it existed.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3146/2295069673_a9038bde05_o.png

The typical version of this cable usually found is the old Apple II-style triangular-shaped with screw heads, not thumb screws.

 

[tmtomh]

I know I used to have a couple of these. I can try to look in my parts boxes to see if I still have one.

Best,

Matt

 

[Mac128]

I know I used to have a couple of these. I can try to look in my parts boxes to see if I still have one.

Bless you. ;-)

 

[tmtomh]

Sorry - it appears I don't have that exact cable anymore.

M

 

[Mac128]

Sorry - it appears I don't have that exact cable anymore.

Damn you ;-)

 

[tmtomh]

Yeah, again, sorry. I have some with the 9-pin at one end and an Apple DIN8 serial connector at the other. And I have on with the 9-pin connector at both ends, but the pin arrangement doesn't look like the diagram you provided - both ends have 9 holes (not pins).

 

[shred]

I don't have a cable, but consulting my 1988 copy of the Apple Peripheral Interface Guide, the only DE-9 Male to DE-9 Male cable is the 590-0197.

"Used to connect the following devices: Macintosh to a Modem 300 or Modem 1200"

Cable is wired as follows:

DE-9 Male---DE-9 Male

3 & 8---3 & 8

5---9

6---6

7---7

9---5

(Hope the diagram makes sense - the forum collapses multiple spaces down to a single space, so I couldn't line things up in columns).

 

[Mac128]

I don't have a cable, but consulting my 1988 copy of the Apple Peripheral Interface Guide, the only DE-9 Male to DE-9 Male cable is the 590-0197.

Yes, shred, there was only one model and part number for the cable. It can often be confusing because these are stock numbers for pulling items from a warehouse. Apple would routinely change vendors or manufactures or even design and replace an earlier version, but it continued to carry the same stock and often model number as it fulfilled the same purpose. In this case, Apple had a Macintosh model number of M0170 which the customer would use and the dealer would order it from the warehouse with P/N 590-0197. Originally, Apple released that modem cross-platform with the Apple II and simply had the Apple cable manufacturer produce a double DE-9 cable in Macintosh-matching medium-brown (also used on the Apple IIe) as well as the other Apple variants cables for the modem. Later they had the Macintosh cable manufacturer make a matching version for the rest of the Mac family cables. But the part/model numbers and pin-outs remained the same.

I already have the original Apple version of the cable, I'm now looking for one that matches the rest of my cables and to confirm that Apple actually made it and just didn't intend to make it, despite it being pictured in their service guides.