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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- Subject: Re: XT-1000 XT Keyboard-to-A1000 Cable
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.031423.6299@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
- References: <1992Nov10.202040.8506@pacdata.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:14:23 GMT
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- sal@pacdata.uucp (Sal Quintanilla) writes:
- >I bought this connector from a swap meet. It's an RJ-11 (or
- >RJ-22, or whatever the 4-contact telephone-type connector is
- >labeled) connected to a 5 pin din socket. At the time, I
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- [ stuff deleted for bandwidth ... ]
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- Its a modular telephone connector. Not a keyboard connector. Its how
- we here at USM Gulf Park connect 4-wire modular cables between a micro
- and a wall jack. Its for easy swapping of serial port lines.
- And yes, it also works on an Amiga serial port.
-
- micro-serial port-modular connector=====4-wire cable====modular conn.--RJ11
-
- So if the port on the wall locks up, I just swap the cable to another
- RJ-11 on the wall. But No, it isn't any keyboard connector I ever saw...
-
- Your milage may vary, but I have installed these things for 5 years now
- as modular connectors to hook micros' serial ports to our Equinox PBX
- system. JimP.
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- --
- Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus
- jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu Disclaimer: Standard.
- "Kill the Wabbit ! " Elmer Fudd.
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