The pins on the camera's female mini DIN connector and the PC's male DB-9 connector are numbered as in the following diagrams:
Note: The above diagrams show the relative pin positions when looking at the connectors on the camera and on the PC, respectively (i.e., these are what the camera cable plugs into). Alternatively, one could view these as diagrams of the back-side of the cable's two connectors.
According to Dave pins 1 through 8 on the mini DIN are wired to pins 1 through 8 respectively on the DB-9 serial port connector, as follows:
Camera-end Computer-end Male Mini DIN-8 Female DB9 Serial --------------- ----------------- 1 not used 2 5 3 2 4 5 5 3 6 5 7 5 8 not usedFor those of you that are curious, the following shows the signal pins/names for the DB9 serial connector at the "computer end" of the cable.
DB9 Signal Name Direction --- ----------- --------- 1 Carrier detect (CD) input to PC 2 Receive data (RxD) input to PC 3 Transmit data (TxD) output from PC 4 Data terminal ready (DTR) output from PC 5 Signal ground (Gnd) - 6 Data set ready (DSR) input to PC 7 Request to send (RTS) output from PC 8 Clear to send (CTS) input to PC 9 Ring indicator (RI) input to PCYou can see from the table that only pins 2 (RxD), 3 (TxD), and 5 (Gnd) are important. Clearly pins 2, 4, 6 and 7 of the DIN connector at the "camera end" are grounded.
Apparently, Dave made his PhotoPC 700 serial cable from a PS2 mouse-to-serial cable he found in a computer store. This cable had a PC DB9 female on one end and a male mini DIN-8 on the other end. He cut the cable in half in the middle, determined what wires went where with an ohm meter, then shuffled the wires as required and connected them back together in the middle of the cable. This saved him a cool $50 over what Epson wanted for a new factory-made cable.