[geeks] RE: portable vt100

[Ken Hansen]

IIRC, there are DCE (Data Comm Equip) and DTE (Data Term Equip).

DCE devices are typically modems.

DTE are typically Terminals.

Sun boxes expect you to hook-up DCE to their ports, so Sun equipment sports DTE ports.

Your portable device serial interface is also configured for a DCE device, so it too is a DTE.

To connect a DTE to a DTE device, you need a crossover cable.

To connect a DCE to a DCE you need a crossove cable - but what would a modem have to say to another modem???

HTH,

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Still [mailto:jon at tertial.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 2:08 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [geeks] RE: portable vt100


On this note, what cables/adaptors do people use to connect their palms to
Sun & Cisco consoles?

J. (Who forgets whether rollover cables work DTE->DCE or some other weird
combo...)

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-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Earl Baugh
Sent: 29 May 2001 18:48
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: [geeks] RE: portable vt100


A basic Palm with one of the "fold-able" keyboards makes for a very
reasonable console.   Even the older Palms work with these, so you
can get one pretty cheaply. (the kbd's run various $$ amounts, but
$100 gets a pretty decent one).  I saw (but have since lost the link...
I'd kill to find it) an adapter which let you plug a standard PC kbd
into a Palm (and also had a mouse port, so you could plug in one
of those CueCat scanners, and have a handy-dandy bar code scanner...
great for cataloging your CD collection...)

I've not played with this type of solution with my Handspring Visor Prism
yet, but that's because I've been spending my toy money on springboard
modules....

Earl

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