Pretty sure I was using those around 1990 at HP, so 25 years. We had DB-25 shells with a jack in the back.
wunder K6WRU CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) On May 14, 2015, at 9:50 PM, David Christ <[email protected]> wrote: > The of an RJ-45 jack for a serial port is hardly innovative nor new. > Lantronix has been using them for well over 15 years. I will be interested > to see if Elecraft uses the same pin assignments. > > Remember, RS-232 is not a physical connector specification. It defines the > signals. > > David K0LUM > > > On May 14, 2015, at 11:10 PM, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That is an RJ-45 jack. Even though the RJ-45 jack is also used for >> Ethernet, the fact that an RJ-45 jack is present does not state (or even >> imply) that it is an Ethernet connection - it is simply a compact 8 pin jack. >> >> 73, >> Don W3FPR > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]

