[geeks] low profile null modem adapters

[Mike Hebel]

On May 11, 2005, at 5:59 AM, Mike Hebel wrote:

> On May 10, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>> I'm using a Portmaster PM25 as a console server.
>>
>> I used to have some low profile null modem adapters, and they seem to
>> have disappeared.
>>
>> I want to get some more.
>>
>> What I'm talking about is a null modem adapter that is no later than a
>> mail and female connector back-to-back.  Very small.
>>
>> I don't like the bulky ones that are 2-3 inches long.
>>
>> The planned use is more systems connected to the PM25.
>>
>> Alternately, anyone know where to get a PM 25 serial port expander  
>> that
>> is already null modem?  The only planned use for this PM25 is as a
>> console server.
>
> They're out there.  Dig around E-Bay.  A friend also found them at  
> Fry's when we were there last year.

Heck - here's some 9pin ones right off the bat:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? 
ViewItem&category=41993&item=6767983765&rd=1

( http://tinyurl.com/9y72l )

Mike Hebel
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