[SunRescue] Serial Cables for Vt420 terminal

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:12:36AM -0500, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> Neat, I get them for a buck each at the local moo U surplus.
> Anyway.... The VMS faq has the pinouts.  But, for VAXentoyz, I go
> by my local cable mongers shoppe, and he makes them up for me at
> about 2 bucks each mmj/mmj for a 6 footer.  It takes a special
> crimper for them, and by stroke of luck they had one.  Below is
> the pinout info that is floating about the net.....
> Bob

In an emergency, you can file down the RJ-11 connectors on a 
phone handset cord and use it as a console cable between a VAX
and a VTxxx terminal.  I've done it with a VAX VLC and a VT420/vt320.

bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX