22 Jan
2007
22 Jan
'07
3:44 a.m.
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Was that me Will? For a short period I was selling
such stuff (largely
old DEC stock but some crimped together in my basement). If it wasn't me
then there has been at least 5 or 6 of us making MMJ cables on this list
over the years!
Yes...but my real complaint is that he has started copying my H8571-J
equivalent adapter kits. Those require much more work than a crimping a
pair of MMJ plugs onto 6 conductor cable. Crimping the D-sub contacts when
you have more than one wire to crimp in the same contact is not easy to do
properly. I have no idea if he is even doing the DTR/DSR wiring. A lot of
the less expensive H8571-J equivalent adapters that I've seen did not
handle hardware flow control signals properly. The genuine DEC adapters
were certainly well made though :)
-Toth