Re: IPX serial cable sources?
der Mouse <[email protected]>
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> I'm trying to bring back to life a couple of my old IPXes but it's > next to impossible to find a source for the 8-pin MiniDIN to D9/D25 > modem serial cables. Fortunately, they are fairly easy to make, if you're at all handy at soldering. The miniDIN-8 end is mildly difficult to find, but not very, yet; Type-4/5 keyboard cables work, as do some older Macintosh serial cables - anything with a miniDIN-8 and all 8 pins wired through. (You don't need all 8 pins for serial use, but it's probably easier than trying to find such a cable with just the pins you do need.) > [I've] also got two no brand others but the Sun one is nice. So > [that's] three in total. Told you I was a cable hoarder.... :-) Did you check that the other two actually worked? I've seen minDIN8-to-DB25 cables whose pinout is not appropriate for Sun serial ports. (Not many, but a few. I have no idea what they were originally intended for.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B