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

[gene heskett]

On Friday, January 07, 2011 09:01:39 pm Christopher Hawks did opine:

> gene heskett said the following on 01/07/2011 07:35 PM:
> > 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?
> 
> 	Yes Gene, I use /dev/ttyUSB0 here. (both DW3 and DW4 with Slakware)

Great Chris, Thanks. So I better go find some db9's & warm up the iron 
tomorrow.

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