Subject: Re: SLC stuff
To: Stefan Arentz <arentz@aladdin.rotterdam.luna.net>
From: Jason Downs <downsj@teeny.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/28/1996 06:15:57
In message <199603280936.KAA27965@aladdin.rotterdam.luna.net>,
	Stefan Arentz writes:
>> 
>> A friend got an SLC at an auction; apparently the display is dead, though
>> it beeps the keyboard at power up.  It has one of those funky combined
>> serial ports... could someone send me the pin out of the port, and how
>> to get an SLC into diag or otherwise talk to the serial port?
>
>If it's a DB-25 connector then you should be able to use it with a
>normal null-modem cable. Without the extension cord that splits it into
>two ports it defaults to port A.

Thanks to everyone that responded.

Hmm.  I *did* just connect a terminal to the port while no keyboard was
plugged in... didn't get any output from it.

Oh well, what can you expect from a $5 SPARC.

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