On Monday 03 June 2019 07:34:36 pm Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > A search for > de9 to db25 rs232 adapter > > Turns up many of them for cheap. A computer shop that's been around > long enough ought to have one or more laying around, might even give > it to you to avoid throwing it away. > > Irritating that companies for whom cables are their specialty are > using the there-is-no-such-thing term "DB9". The 9 pin D-Subminiature > connector size is the E size, also used with High Density for analog > monitor connections with 15 pins. Commonly called HD15 but should be > HDE15. > > The B size is is used for 25 pin serial ports, PC parallel ports, old > Macintosh SCSI ports, 13W3 connectors for old Sun monitors and that > one has been used with gas and liquid connections run through the 3 > holes Sun used for coaxial cables. The A size with 15 pins was used on > joysticks for PCs, the Atari 5200 game console, and old Macintosh > computers for their monitors. Don't plug an old Mac monitor into a PC > gameport. Don't, seriously, do not. Of course Apple had to come up > with their own variant with 19 pins. Whomever is responsible for > maintaining these things never bothered to give Apple's 19 pin > external floppy connector a letter designation for size. It's also > used on some obscure industrial equipment or something. After the > connectors being out of production for a while, with old stock > supplies completely gone, the guy who makes solid state floppy > emulators for Macintosh and Apple II computers got together with some > company that makes stuff for whatever odd non-Mac stuff uses that > connector. They had a new production run made. For a short while the > Big Mess-O-Wires guy had the world's entire supply of new 19 pin D-Sub > connectors on his back porch.
Don't forget the db23 that commode door used for video on the Amiga's. Those are except for some very old stock that digikey had yet 15 years ago, they are today made out of pure unobtainium. > On Monday, June 3, 2019, 11:26:59 AM MDT, Gene Heskett > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday 03 June 2019 01:02:23 pm Greg Bernard wrote: > > Have you thouht of using a USB to serial adapter? > > https://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Converter-Installation-Universal-TU- > >S9 /dp/B0007T27H8 > > Yes and no Greg. They are all db9's and this sniffer is db25. I have > the fdti cables, but not a spare 9 to 25. > > I'm more concerned that this testing's java is way to new. > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
