# The stuff I used

These are the cables I used for my direct cable connection adventures. The cable the left is a homemade serial cable wired null-modem. The gray cable on the right is a parallel cable. It is a standard parallel laplink cable.

The pinouts of these cables should follow this scheme:

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    Null-Modem
    Pinouts DB-25 to DB-25

    2     to  3
    3     to  2
    4     to  5
    5     to  4
    6 & 8 to  20
    7     to  7
    20    to  6 & 8

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    Null-Modem
    Pinouts DB-9 to DB-9

    1 & 6 to  4
    2     to  3
    3     to  2
    4     to  1 & 6
    5     to  5
    7     to  8
    8     to  7

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    Null-Modem
    Pinouts DB-25 to DB-9

    2     to  2
    3     to  3
    4     to  8
    5     to  7
    6 & 8 to  4
    7     to  5
    20    to  6 & 1

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    Parallel Laplink
    Pinouts DB-25

    1  to  1
    2  to  15
    3  to  13
    4  to  12
    5  to  10
    6  to  11
    7  Not Used
    8  Not Used
    9  Not Used
    10 to  5
    11 to  6
    12 to  4
    13 to  3
    14 to  14
    15 to  2
    16 to  16
    17 to  17
    18 Not Used
    19 Not Used
    20 Not Used
    21 Not Used
    22 Not Used
    23 Not Used
    24 Not Used
    25 to  25
    Shield to Shield

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