yeah sorry thats what I ment nine pin. Thanks :)
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 03:41, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> On Saturday 09 November 2002 23:13, you wrote:
> > I have two old terminals with 2 25 pin connecters on the back, Port A
> > and B. Unfortunately I have no cables or adapters with these and so I am
> > trying to make a 25pin to cat5 to 8pin with two of those unassembled
> > connecters you can get from frys ammong other things. My main problem is
> > that I simply cant find what the pinouts are supposed to be for this
> > terminal, I cant even find the company who made them online. Its a Falco
> > Data Products INC. F5000 series serial terminal. So do these things have
> > any kind of standard or anything ? or some way I could hack it together?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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> I notice you say "eight pin." Are you trying to connect the 25-pin terminals
> to a standard PC-type nine-pin serial connector? If so, this would be the
> pinout:
>
> 25-pin 9-pin
> 1 - chassis ground Shell, if it has one
> 2 - transmit data 3
> 3 - receive data 2
> 4 - request to send 7
> 5 - clear to send 8
> 6 - data set ready 6
> 7 - signal ground 5
> 8 - carrier detect 1
> 20- data term. rdy 4
> 22 - ring indicator 9
>
> Of these signals, "ring indicator" is probably the best candidate for
> omission, since it's obviously a telephone thing. And of course if your
> cable has no shield you don't have to worry about chassis ground.
>
> These pinouts were taken from an ancient copy of "The Programmer's PC
> Sourcebook" by Microsoft Press, though I'm sure this info is available via a
> google search, if you just know the right terms. (Like RS232, 9-to-25 pin,
> etc.)
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