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From: rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: serial port on HP9000/360
Message-ID: <7370059@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 89 19:10:44 GMT
References: <1989Dec12.220931.24207@iex.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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re: >> I would greatly appreciate it if someone could send me the pinouts of
    >> the 9 pin serial port on the back of the HP9000/360 or let me know
    >> which manual describes it.

The table posted by Rod Cerkoney is correct.

> I may be speaking prematurely, but I seem to remember that this
> is the same as the PC-AT serial connector.  Therefore, your local
> PC dealer should have the info in any data sheet.

Negatory, and you can blame me; I'm the person who persuaded the lab to do
it this way:  The 9-pin connector on current Series 300 computers was cloned
(in 1984) from the one on the HP Portable (aka HP 110, HP 45710A).  It was
as much a standard as anything back then, and cables were available.  It has
neither the same sex nor the same pinouts as a conventional PC-AT port.

The pin-out information is documented under the 98561-66530 (Model 320 human
interface card) section of the 98561-90020 Series 300 Configuration
Reference Manual (8/85).  It may not have been documented elsewhere for
later models.  We need to address that.

Starting with the Model 375 we are switching to the industry standard male
9-pin connector and pinouts.  I will contact the keeper of the Workstation
Configuration Guide and ask that BOTH sets of pinouts be included.

By the way, netnews is a very slow and capricious way to get questions
answered.  If you have either HP TeamLine or HP ResponseLine software
support services, you can direct questions about supported HP products, like
this one, to your regional HP Response Center.  HP people who respond to
netnews questions are donating our time.  We not have the full resources of
a Response Center at our disposal, and the person who knows the answer to
any given question may not be reading news this week, or month, or...

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland      rjn%hpfcrjn@hplabs.HP.COM             3404 East Harmony Road
                UUCP: [hplabs|hpfcse]!hpfcla!rjn      Ft Collins CO 80525-9599

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