[Gllug] Sun SparcStations

[Ian Norton]

my other sparc has a wierd serial port also, afaik it wont work witha 
 25pin rs232, its a sparc LX and i think it needs a 'special' connector

Ian

Tethys wrote:

>Ian Norton writes:
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>>seriously, where the hell do you easily find a cable for the strange sun 
>>combo-serial ports?
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>I liberated mine from a previous workplace :-) For those wondering what
>the hell we're going on about here, certain Sparc models (such as the
>SparcStation 4 and 5) had a single serial 25 pin port that actually
>supported two ports via a Y-splitter cable. I *think* that if you use
>a minimally wired serial cable (from memory, 2, 3, 7 & 20 -- TX, RX,
>GND and DTR), then it should work as a single port without the splitter
>cable.
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>Tet
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