Setting up a VAXstation

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Patrick Finnegan 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.
> 
> If you're using the right Cisco adapter on the other end 
> (labelled "Terminal" usually, but not "Modem", basically any DB25 or 
> DE9 adapter that's got a female end), you shouldn't need to recrimp the 
> other end.  Just shove the RJ11 into the adapter and 
> the 'ez-disconnect' end into the MMJ jack.

Wow.  That's cool.  That'll save me some time next time.

Peace...  Sridhar