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Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: RS232 cable wanted for attaching anything to anything
Message-ID: <2297@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 10:35:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2297
Posted: Mon Jun 15 10:35:25 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jun-87 01:28:50 EDT
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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I am looking for a "smart cable" which will attach any RS232
device to any other (modulo very wierd stuff) without wiring
or jumpering.  I'm tired of spending half an hour soldering on
cables every time I hook up a terminal or modem.

I have located a $50 "Smart Cable" which does 95% of this; it has a
plastic box with a few LEDs and two switches.  Unfortunately,
while it has both male and female connectors on one end, the
other end must be ordered one way or the other.

I could always buy these and permanently attach a sex changer to
them (configured so it could be removed from the circuit without
getting lost) but I hate to support stupidity.  While the Smart
Cable folks had a good idea, the missing connector sex is just too
dumb for me to want to give them money.

Anybody found a place that does it right?
-- 
Copyright 1987 John Gilmore; you may redistribute only if your recipients may.
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