Serial Terminal cables

[Sam Thigpen]

If you want to connect to something like a Sun
workstation, that terminal should probably be okay.
The bandwidth bottleneck is probably still going to be
on the terminal side, however.

There is a good deal of information on this in
Celeste's tutorial on the Stokely web site:

http://www.stokely.com/unix.serial.port.resources/4.x.modem.html

--- Alan Dayley <alandd@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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

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