25 May
2011
25 May
'11
2 p.m.
I've never tried it with a USB serial port actually. Then again I've
never had the issue of not having serial ports on my PC. (If it
doesn't have serial ports, I will buy a serial card... Even if it is
my top of the line quad core, multi-terabyte disk space, built for
gaming and multimedia PC.)
It should work fine though. At the very least, it would work fine for
the console connection.
On 25 May 2011 01:11, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 5/24/2011 9:03 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove
wrote:
In terms of hardware on the PC side of things, all one needs is a
serial port. The software I use (which I'm sure I linked; if not find
it here: http://www.ak6dn.dyndns.org/PDP-11/TU58/tu58em/ ) I currently
run on my Windows XP Pro SP3 system; it's also been tested under
Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Server Standard by me), with the
oversized images.
The PC side of the cable is a nine-pin serial port, while the PDP-11
side is the 10-pin cable. The cable I use, has one side as the DLVJ1
connection (10-pin IDC, tab scraped off) and he other side as a DE9M
D-sub connector (i.e. the "PC serial port" connector, wired as a DTE).
The conenction between the systems is then made with a standard serial
null modem cable (I had a couple so I just used a that). (Plus wiring
the serial port on the '11 side of things as a DTE is the correct
way.)
Since serial ports are not many new machines,have you tried
it with a USB serial converter?