Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!falstaff.css.beckman.com!heffron From: heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com (Matt Heffron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: INSTANT Apollo? :-( Keywords: serial PigTail cable wirelist Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 90 01:58:46 GMT References: <1990Nov27.165359.6229@quintro.uucp> <11780@milton.u.washington.edu> Lines: 48 Nntp-Posting-Host: falstaff.css.beckman.com In <11780@milton.u.washington.edu> etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell) writes: >About the serial cable: If that's the 1-to-3 splitter, >did you also get hit with near tripling of the price? >The thing now costs $325. Seems excessive to me. Here is the wirelist for the Apollo serial cable we came up with here (thanks to Steve Phillips here for this): Wire list for Apollo serial pigtail connector - 010338 Rev.00 The tail consists of a DB-25 pin male and the pig consists of three DB-25 pin females "co-housed" two "pigs feet" away. Tail Pig sio1 sio2 sio3 ---- -------------------- 1 1-1 2-1 3-1 2 1-2 3 1-3 4 1-4 5 1-5 6 n/c 7 1-7 2-7 3-7 8 1-8 9 3-3 10 3-5 11 n/c 12 2-2 13 2-3 14 2-4 15 2-5 16 2-8 17 n/c 18 2-20 19 3-20 20 1-20 21 3-2 22 n/c 23 3-4 24 n/c 25 3-8 End of wire list. -- Matt Heffron heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com Beckman Instruments, Inc. voice: (714) 961-3128 2500 Harbor Blvd. MS X-11, Fullerton, CA 92634 Cute saying/disclaimer in development.