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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