[Coco] serial ports and printers, oh my was Re:Coco serial cable

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Sun Aug 30 16:45:18 EDT 2009


On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 01:22:49PM -0700, Tim Fadden wrote:
> Some Sun Microsystems machines use a single db25 that has two rs232 
> ports on it, just as you speak.  They make a splitter y cable to use 
> both of them. Or if you connect a cable directly you get one port.

Cool!  I didn't know that!

<looks things up...>

My limited Sun hardware reference doesn't seem to indicate if my 4/110
has a serial port like this or not.

Willard
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