29 Dec
2013
29 Dec
'13
2:45 a.m.
On 12/28/13 9:48 AM, blstuart at bellsouth.net wrote:
As it turns out, the cables I was describing were ones I did a few
months before that discussion.
What I've done lately is use a cable with a
10-pin header on one end
and a DE-9 on the other. These cables came from some inexpensive PC
For those of you that have no mailing list memory
http://www.dbit.com/wilson/dlvdb25/
under
Re: PDP-11/23+ serial ports
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2013-November/153358.html I got two boards from John, they are GREAT. Much more
solid than having
flying ribbon cable leads off the back of a 25 pin connector.
No question that John's boards are definitely better engineered than
my hacked cables. For that matter, I have given some thought to
replacing the hacks with his boards (or a 9-pin version).
BLS