We are using our EDGE II since about 20 years now and it was very reliable all the time. It is still useable for various tasks, regardless of it’s age. But the original cable, that came with our edge seems to be broken and we need a new one.
As we have a quiet unique setup (EDGE II with MacImprint 2.2 on an old Macintosh G4 with MacOS 10.3) it is hard to find any useful informations on the web. I contacted the dealer that sold us the system back in the days but they stopped hardware support long ago. An other company took over the support, so I contacted them. I asked them about the Gerber USB to Parallel Cable (P83301A) that I found on the web and they told me, that they would sell it, but that It would be most likely NOT compatible with our setup. So they could not really help us. They told us to try a cheap cable from Amazon, so we did - but of course it did not work.
The cable that came with our EDGE II is NOT the P83301A, it is an ISD USB SMART CABLE, Model# ISD-103. It is the left one on the attached photo. I found one on eBay, that is nearly identical (the right one on the photo): same description, same model, even the serial number starts with the same letters and digits… But it is not recognized by the software. The cable, that came with our EDGE II is even recognized, when it is NOT plugged into the EDGE II. The spooler shows every plugging/unplugging of the cable immediately. Not so with the ISD-103 cable that I just bought. It does not show up.
After that, I contacted Gerber (LECTRA). They confirmed, that the original P83301A will not work with our setup and that it's possible that the serial number on the cable is somehow connected to the software, and that is why the one we purchased on Ebay won't work.
Maybe someone here had the same issues (even if this is very unlikely) an a solution to it?
Otherwise, the only way would be to switch to Windows and Omega - with a set of new cables, of course...
As we have a quiet unique setup (EDGE II with MacImprint 2.2 on an old Macintosh G4 with MacOS 10.3) it is hard to find any useful informations on the web. I contacted the dealer that sold us the system back in the days but they stopped hardware support long ago. An other company took over the support, so I contacted them. I asked them about the Gerber USB to Parallel Cable (P83301A) that I found on the web and they told me, that they would sell it, but that It would be most likely NOT compatible with our setup. So they could not really help us. They told us to try a cheap cable from Amazon, so we did - but of course it did not work.
The cable that came with our EDGE II is NOT the P83301A, it is an ISD USB SMART CABLE, Model# ISD-103. It is the left one on the attached photo. I found one on eBay, that is nearly identical (the right one on the photo): same description, same model, even the serial number starts with the same letters and digits… But it is not recognized by the software. The cable, that came with our EDGE II is even recognized, when it is NOT plugged into the EDGE II. The spooler shows every plugging/unplugging of the cable immediately. Not so with the ISD-103 cable that I just bought. It does not show up.
After that, I contacted Gerber (LECTRA). They confirmed, that the original P83301A will not work with our setup and that it's possible that the serial number on the cable is somehow connected to the software, and that is why the one we purchased on Ebay won't work.
Maybe someone here had the same issues (even if this is very unlikely) an a solution to it?
Otherwise, the only way would be to switch to Windows and Omega - with a set of new cables, of course...
