[Coco] terrifying sysadmins for fun with UUCP was Re: old backups , RESTORED!

[Christopher Hawks]

gene heskett said the following on 01/07/2011 07:35 PM:
> On Friday, January 07, 2011 08:24:43 pm gene heskett did opine:
>
>
> [huge snippage]
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>> Has anyone, using a short 3 or 4 foot cable to a decent FTDI ser-usb
>> adapter, made that work at 460k?  I am fresh out of those 4 pin din
>> connectors and they are no longer a shack stocked item.  Also I have
>> noted that neither Mark nor Roger, seems to be offering that cable
>> ready made, so who has the parts and is selling them?
>>
>> Thanks all.
>
> PS:  Took the place apart, only drawing blood once, and found one unused 4
> pin din connector and a 6 foot cable with 4 pin connectors on both ends,
> but no db9 female plugs, so I guess I go to the shack anyway. I avoid that
> place if I can, but the avoidance is a 70+ mile round trip from my 20. :(
> I can buy several of those db9's from Jameco for the price of the gas for
> that trip.
>
> I looked up the FTDI parts, and they can do a megabaud, so that shouldn't
> be much of a problem.  I presume the java server that runs on here can use
> a /dev/ttyUSB port?
>

	Yes Gene, I use /dev/ttyUSB0 here. (both DW3 and DW4 with Slakware)

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