_Many_ years
ago I wired my own
'breakout cable' for one, to get 3 or 4 of the ports usable before I got
the right Cabkit.
We used to use lots of Nevada Western RJ11 serial adapters. We ran a
standard 50-pin-to-CHAMP cable from each serial board, then a hand-wired
double-telco-50-pin swabber to our rack-mounted Nevada Western panels
which broke 25 pairs into eight RJ-11s. Figuring out one is tedious;
making a dozen isn't so bad once you have the pattern.
When I did this, I didn't have the DZ11 printset (I have it now, of
course). I had t otrace out connections by hand. Finding hte grounds was
quite easy, I then traced the remaining pins back to 1488s and 1489s to
determine which were inputs nad which were outputs. It was then a
'simple' matter of sticking the card in my 11/45, writing to things like
the DTR (?) control register and seeing which pins changed state, doing
thwe same with the line break register (to find the TxD pins), then reading
the DCCD register and seeing which pin changed each bit, and so on. The
remaining pins had to be the RxD inputs (the only ones I couldn't
directly test), it wasn't too hard to work out which was for each channel.
IIRC, on the DZ11 the connector is parallel to
one of the short edges of
the PCB...
It is. I think it was designed to be easy to route in equipment of the
11/34 era.
It's not that nice in a BA11-K (you have to fold the cable over), it goes
very nicely in a BA11-F (11/40, 11/45 box), since you can plug the cable
in from the top after opening the upper fan tray.
-tony