Y-cable for Apple IIe card

[Olivier]

The page on Vectronics mentions "The Y-cable is harder to find than the card itself", and how true that is when you see the Ebay activity around this cable whenever there's one listed :huh:

I'm reading from here how to make your own cable; has anyone tried?

Thanks.

 

[kiyotewolf]

Would help to have pinouts of all three ends of the cable.

You can get the pinout diagram for the joystick, from an Apple joystick.

The external drive connector, probably is available.

The really difficult part, is probably, trying to find the end of the Y-cable which fits into that board.
I wonder if they even made that info public.

Happy hunting.



~Paul

 

[njroadfan]

Pin outs are here: http://www.vintagemacworld.com/lc_card_faq.html#C

The card end of the cable uses a 26pin connector that has seen some use in other devices. My Soundblaster X-fi uses the same connector for its external breakout box.

 

[Olivier]

Thanks Paul and njroadfan. I'll check out RadioShack and keep the thread posted on my (probably slow) progress.