17 May
2015
17 May
'15
9:58 a.m.
I can tell you from firsthand experience that if you're just doing short
little runs within a vintage computer room in your home or something like
that, you can directly pin the 9-pin D-sub over to 8P8C and make short runs
with common unshielded Cat V cable and it should work fine. I did this all
the time when I was in high school to connect old MCA PS/2 machines with
the IBM token ring adapters (9 pin D-sub) to various old 8P8C MAUs that I
had acquired. I can't speak to dealing with those funky IBM connectors;
never worked with those.
Best,
Sean
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Dave G4UGM <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
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Subject: Weird stuff has a TI 810 (also if anyone has token ring wiring)
There is a white cased TI 810 at Weird Stuff in the AS IS room. Probably
cheap. Of course unknown condition.
Got some very nice Token ring equipment from an IBM facility of some
sort.
will be using for Hercules setups.
I'll need some balun's for the RJ45 (ibm version) to the DB9 if anyone
has
an
idea of the hookup. I'd like to figure out
if I can wire this w/o using
the token
ring cables, since I have what appears to be a
bridge unit. I'll have to
research
that though.
Thanks
Jim
Jim,
Is there a part number on the "bridge" unit? Typically the IBM units just
switch the stations it and out of the ring.
Dave