APPENDICES
Appendix A: Serial Cabling
The diagrams below show the Caretaker Plus pinout on the left and all other devices on the right. Read across to find the pinout. Connector types shown below refer to the connector on the device, not on the cable. NOTE: Caretaker Plus is abbreviated CTP.
Serial Computers
CTP | IBM PC | IBM AT | Mac |
| Mac+ |
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25 pin | 25pin | 9 pin | 9 pin |
| 8 pin |
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female | male | male | female |
| circular |
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2 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
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3 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
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7 | 7 | 5 |
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20 | 7 |
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Serial Printers |
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CTP | HP Laser | Xerox | Apple |
| Apple |
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| Jet | 4045 | Image- |
| Image- |
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| laser | writer |
| writer II |
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25 pin | 25 pin | 25 pin | 25 pin |
| 8 pin |
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female | female | female | female |
| circular |
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2 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 |
| 5 |
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3 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 |
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7 | 7 | 7 |
| 7 |
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6 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| 1 |
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4 | - |
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| - |
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Serial Printers/Plotters |
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CTP | Epson | Okidata* Diablo | NEC | HP | Calcomp | Hou.Inst. | ||
25 pin female | MX type | 630 | spinwr. plotters plotters | plotters | ||||
2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 |
3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 |
7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| 7 | 7 | 7 |
6 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 19 |
| 20 | 20 | 20 |
4 | 6 | 6 | ||||||
*Jumper setting for ready on pin 11. |
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Other Devices |
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CTP | Hayes | Multi- | Rose* | Rose** | Vax | |||
25 pin female | modem | plexers | terminal | 25 pin female | 8 pin female | 25 pin female | ||
2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
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| 3 | 6 | 3 |
3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
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| 2 | 4 | 2 |
4 | 4 | 4 | - |
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6 | 6 | 6 | - |
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| 20 | 3 | - |
7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
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| 7 | 5 | 7 |
20 | 20 | 20 | - |
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| 6 | 2 | - |
*Refers to any Rose switching device with a 25 pin serial port (Caretaker. Caretaker Plus, Porter, Super Switch, or Master Switch).
**Refers to any Rose switching device with a RJ45 8 pin serial port (MSU or MSN Series Master Switch, or FastPrint).
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