From the nimble fingers of Mark Lincoln (mlincoln@...) (18/2/2002
7:49 PM) came...

> I know that to use hardware handshaking with a modem, one still has to have
> a cable that supports it.  Perhaps the same cable can be used with a
> printer, but that's pure speculation on my part.

The standard ImageWriter cable pinned out 7 of the 8 possible connections.
The one missing is GPi (general purpose input) which is used by such things
as Epson colour printers; they use the pin to clock data out of the Mac and,
by using this synchronous method, achieve upwards of 5 megabits per second,
being rather faster than the 230K available in the async mode.
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