Serial Terminal cables

[Alan Dayley]

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:13, Entelin 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

While I have no experience with this particular brand of terminal, I
think you have to assume that the ports are serial ports.  As it COM
ports, RS-232.  If you are trying to wire them to CAT5 because you want
them to do ethernet, they won't.  You would need some kind of ethernet
to serial adapter.  Good luck.

Alan