My view is that if you have spent little or nothing on the computer. Then a few pounds on
a cable is a good investment. If you do not have experience in making up cables then
don't waste time learning for a small number.
Rod
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From: cctech-bounces at
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classiccmp.org] On Behalf
Of Pete Edwards
Sent: 03 October 2007 14:34
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Setting up a VAXstation
here, folks. I'm not going to spend ?20 or
?30 on getting or making
a cable for a 99p computer!
Ah, that's right - you're in the UK so the telephone cables won't be
the same. Actually, you _might_ be able to take an Ethernet cable,
file off the clip and file both sides to make it fit. If you can keep
the pins centered properly after filing, it should work.
-Ian
There's plenty of telephone kit in the UK that does use RJ11, look on answering
machines and especially external modems - they nearly always came with an RJ11-BT adaptor
cable.
A lot of modern laptop internal modems seem to have RJ11 sockets too.
--
Pete Edwards
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future" - Niels
Bohr