[rescue] Dec 3000/800s

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Thu Jan 10 09:49:06 CST 2002


>On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:15:51AM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
>
>>  Its a fakemeout MMJ cord... 4 conductor... only the datalines are
>>  connected...
>I remember dark that a MMJ cable with only the data lines connected
>did not work on one of my VAXen.

Same cord worked great on my 4000/200...

>  > I'll have to find an RJ12 and make a new cord... I
>>  didn't think it cared about flow control... seems kinda odd on a
>>  terminal port.
>That lines are AFAIK not used for flow control. They are used to
>detect the presence of a terminal. If they are not connected,
>the machine sees no terminal and is unhappy... That is DEC. Think
>of the "network interface error" you get on a VAXstation if no
>network cable is connected...

Time to dig out the RJ12 and file then.  Ok.. I'll try this later.

daniel
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