4 Jun
2007
4 Jun
'07
2:58 p.m.
Add to that the little RS-232 "patch boxes"--one male, one female DB-
25 and a PCB in between with pads for each conductor and a hood that
covers the whole works. I have several pre-wired and labeled with
I just bought the empry housiongs nad fitted my own connectors, which I
hard-wired appropraitely (no PCB)> That means my null-modems have socks
on both ends, for example.
Be warned there was a ready-made 'null modem' adapter sold by Maplin in
the UK that had _cray_ wiring. I am not sure what it was designed to work
with, but I could find nothing that it was correct for.
things like "null modem"
"crossover", etc. I even have one labeled
"Laplink parallel". Get enough of these and all you need are
straight-through cables--and maybe a gender changer or two. No
The 'unviersal gender cable' is handy. Take a length of 25 way IDC ribbon
cable (e.g . strip 1 wire off some 26 way) about 2' long. Crimp a DB25
plug and a DB25 socket at each end (4 connectors total) making sure all
the pin 1s go to the same wire. Mkke a couple of them and you have no
need for gender benders.
-tony