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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: RS232 cable wanted for attaching anything to anything
Message-ID: <218@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 10:09:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.218
Posted: Wed Jun 24 10:09:10 1987
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Here's the one I use.


Take 4 female and 2 male DB25s, and a bunch of 25-conductor ribbon cable.
Add a bunch of molex pins.

Connect them like so:

=== ribbon cable
--- single cable


2 copies of:
	DB25P===DB25S===================DB25S
	"connectors"                    "plugboard"

25 copies of:
	pin-----pin

add to taste:
	pin-----pin-----pin
	pin-----pin-----pin-----pin
	etc...

Now, take the 2 single female DB25s and bind them together with electrical tape
or something (kinky). Stick the pins in them (oh!) 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, etc... and
you have a standard gender-bender cable. Stick 1-1, 2-3, 3-2, 4-5, 5-4, 6-8-20,
and so on... and you have a standard reversing cable. You can tape a tackle-box
to the "plugboard" to hold all the cables. This will do anything you ever need
to do with DB25s, and probably a bunch of stuff you don't. And you probably
have all the parts lying around already.