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Teo Hong Siang wrote:
>
> The only store in Singapore selling the above product has the price
> at S$65, which is about US$45. Is this a fair price ?
Depends how desparate you are.....
>
> Worse come to worse, I may want to make my own cable. Where can I get
> the pin-outs ?
See attachment, I have been told the HP200LX uses the same cable as the
Ogo does.
Groetjes en succes,
Corne
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Path: ats.nld.alcatel.nl!news.bel.alcatel.be!Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!assets.wharton.upenn.edu!sundor96 From: sundor96@assets.wharton.upenn.edu (Adam Sundor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops Subject: Re: How to make a serial cable for the HP LX200 Date: 15 Apr 1997 14:21:36 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <5j02tg$3nh@netnews.upenn.edu> References: <3352088E.CB09AAF8@mailbox.uq.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: assets.wharton.upenn.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2-upenn1.1]
BR (siltec@mailbox.uq.edu.au) wrote: : can anyone help me i want to make a serial cable to connect to my big : computer from my little palmtop can anyone shed some light on this : subject for me please
: Rossco. : siltec@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Digi-Key Corporation (they have a web site now, www.digikey.com ?) 701 Brooks Ave. South P.O. Box 677 Thief River Falls, MN 56701-0677 800-344-4539 800-DIGI-KEY 218-681-6674 218-681-3380 fax $25.00 minimum order or $5.00 handling charge
part# H2004-ND Hirose Electric Co., A3B series 10-pin dual-row, 2mm connector (HP 100/200LX) part# H9999-ND Hirose Electric Co., socket terminals, quantity 100 part# H2013-ND Hirose Electric Co., A4B series 4-pin, single-row, 2mm connector (HP-48, HP-95LX)
If you already have the HP cable, it comes with an adapter to plug the 10-pin connector into a 4-pin HP95 or HP48. One clever use of this adapter is use it as a mold to make a "bump" on Digi-Key 10-pin connector using 5-minute epoxy. This "bump" is not essential, but it may help prevent you from inserting the 10-pin connector upside-down.
The above is from the HP FAQ, which used to be posted here regularly.
The actual wiring can be found in the user's manual. Page 26-8 for the 200LX. 1-1 2-3 3-2 4-6 5-5 6-4 7-8 8-7 9-9 10-5 The 1 to 10 is on the HP's side. The 1 to 9 is the 9-pin going to the computer.
Remember to cross the transmit and receive wires, 2 and 3, if making a cable for computer to computer connection. If you forget, no problem, just buy a null modem adapter to add (around $4 from Radio Shack).
As you can see and the other poster suggested, it's much time and trouble to build your own, unless you have a major electronics supplier down the street from you, who as a personal favor, will find not terribly common parts and sell them to you without a minimum purchase. This has happened to me once, so it's possible, at times.
Adam Sundor
PS You might ask around in your school's engineering department. The HP-48 uses the same cable, I believe, but with another little adapter to make the 10-pin into a 4 for the HP-48. They also might be able to order the cable for you, so whoever handles HP-48's can theoretically help you out for the cable. And maybe one of the students could put together a cable for you. The only somewhat obscure part is the 10-pin housing for the HP200LX. And if you are willing to go with simple transfer methods, you can get by with only wiring up 3 of the wires, but this is not a wonderful idea if you wish to use the more complex programs for transferring files, they require more wires to work, as I recall.
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