200LX serial cable: should this work?

[Dave]

I've got a 200LX serial cable (F1015-80002, definitely not a 49G
cable), and the 10-to-4-pin 48S/G adapter that comes with the 49G
cable (F1633-66001). I can't get any communication between my 48SX and
desktop with this combination. Should this work, or is the 10-pin
palmtop cable pinout too different from the 10-pin calculator cable
for me to use the same 48S/G adapter with both?

-Dave Britten

[rs1n]

I know that the HP38G cable (which looks just like the HP200LX cable)
is compatible via the adapter. And I am pretty sure the HP38G cable is
not the same as the HP200LX cable.

[rs1n]

On Dec 4, 9:04 am, Dave <davidbr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's a link to Joe Horn's cable table: http://www.holyjoe.org/hp/cable.htm

The HP38G and HP49G have the same pinouts (see F1897-66000 cable). Joe
Horn's table shows that the HP200LX cable can fry HP49G calculators.
So there you have it -- not compatible.

[Dave]

On Dec 4, 10:04 am, rs1n <handuongs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a link to Joe Horn's cable table:http://www.holyjoe.org/hp/cable.htm
>
> The HP38G and HP49G have the same pinouts (see F1897-66000 cable). Joe
> Horn's table shows that the HP200LX cable can fry HP49G calculators.
> So there you have it -- not compatible.

Hmm, I knew there were some extra video output lines on the 49G port
that can fry the thing if you hook them up to serial control lines
with a 200LX cable, but I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression
that the 4 basic serial lines were mapped the same on both the 49G and
200LX ports. However, these two links seem to suggest that the pinouts
differ significantly in that regard, meaning I would indeed need a
different adapter for the 200LX cable:

http://pinouts.ru/PDA/hp2001_serial_pinout.shtml
http://www.hpcalc.org/hp49/docs/faq/#ss1.11

Thanks for the link; hopefully I can dig up the right combination of
cable + adapter that will work on both my 200LX and my various 48s.

-Dave Britten