21 Oct
2012
21 Oct
'12
11:25 p.m.
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Adrian Graham wrote:
On 21/10/2012 22:53, "Cameron Kaiser"
<spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
I'm on the same side of the pond as Cameron and I'm also able to fabricate
MMJ cables (with enough connectors still on hand to make 100s more).
Better than 10 years ago when I was first trying to hunt for these sort of
cables and adapters no one wanted to part with any so I gave up and bought
proper tooling and began making my own ;)
Shame the USPS decided to make international shipping pretty much cost
prohibitive for sending small inexpensive parcels to the UK. At one time I
was sending out tons of small cables internationally (including lots of
TRS-80 stuff). These days international postage is typically more than
2-3x the cost of what a small cable itself costs to make.
So I finally got the needed MMJ serial cables and
got my VAXstation
3100 setup using the Solbourne S3000 as a serial console. The boot
monitor comes up just fine in cu, but the machine remains at the boot
monitor and does not start VMS.
Wish I'd known you were after MMJ stuff, could've made you some! Postage
from the UK wouldn't have been prohibitive :)