Setting up a VAXstation
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 14:42:10 CDT 2007
Liam Proven wrote:
>> If you don't find one, you can still use a MMJ serial cable/console
>> to boot it.
>
> I don't own a serial terminal. I'd have to try to make a cable and
> hook it to a PC and use a terminal emulator. Yet more complexity!
Making an MMJ cable is a piece of cake. Just take the retention clip
off of the RJ11 at the end of a phone cord. Crimp an RJ45 on the other
end with the proper wires heading to the proper pins, and use a Cisco
RJ45->DE9 adapter.
Peace... Sridhar
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