[Coco] terrifying sysadmins for fun with UUCP was Re: old backups , RESTORED!

[gene heskett]

On Friday, January 07, 2011 08:24:43 pm gene heskett did opine:


[huge snippage]
 
> Has anyone, using a short 3 or 4 foot cable to a decent FTDI ser-usb
> adapter, made that work at 460k?  I am fresh out of those 4 pin din
> connectors and they are no longer a shack stocked item.  Also I have
> noted that neither Mark nor Roger, seems to be offering that cable
> ready made, so who has the parts and is selling them?
> 
> Thanks all.

PS:  Took the place apart, only drawing blood once, and found one unused 4 
pin din connector and a 6 foot cable with 4 pin connectors on both ends, 
but no db9 female plugs, so I guess I go to the shack anyway. I avoid that 
place if I can, but the avoidance is a 70+ mile round trip from my 20. :(  
I can buy several of those db9's from Jameco for the price of the gas for 
that trip.

I looked up the FTDI parts, and they can do a megabaud, so that shouldn't 
be much of a problem.  I presume the java server that runs on here can use 
a /dev/ttyUSB port?

-- 
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