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- From: joseph@joebloe.maple-shade.nj.us (Joseph Nathan Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Help Me Set Up a MacTablet w/ a Plus
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 22:34:14 EDT
- Organization: 5 Sigma Software
- Message-ID: <01050166.bbmf5d@joebloe.maple-shade.nj.us>
- Reply-To: joseph@joebloe.maple-shade.nj.us
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- (All responses by e-mail, please!)
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- The search for a graphics tablet for a Mac Plus ended, I hope, when
- I found an old Summagraphics MacTablet in the back of a closet at
- work.
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- I hope someone out there has experience with one of these. If so,
- please read on!
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- What I have is an *original* MacTablet, complete with DB-9 connector
- and software versions 1.0 - 5.0 (the latter dated 1987). I wonder
- whether all I need to do in order to get it working is to find the
- proper adapter cable--would be a female DB-9 to male Mini-DIN-8.
- I tried using a male DB-9 to male Mini-DIN-8 w/ a F/F DB-9 gender
- changer, but that didn't work. I don't know whether the pinouts
- and/or pins in general were correct, though. The ver. 5.1 DA
- installed and didn't hang in both System 5.0.1 and 6.0.7, but
- the tablet didn't work ....
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- I hope I can get it to run under Finder on System 6.0.7. This admittedly
- low-tech solution is for a friend of mine who wants only a simple,
- inexpensive drawing capability and has a particular desire to hook
- up a graphics tablet to his Plus. This equipment would be perfect
- if it could be made to work.
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- Any informed comments from someone who has experience using a
- Summagraphics MacTablet w/ a Mac Plus will be *greatly* appreciated.
- Heck, if anyone knows what happened to Summagraphics, that might be
- helpful, too ...!
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- Thanks,
-
- uunet!joebloe!joseph (609) 273-8200 day joseph%joebloe@uunet.uu.net
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