FT1000MP Comp Interface

Tyler Stewart kf3p@cais.cais.com
Thu, 6 Jun 1996 18:37:56 -0400


>>Does no one in Japan own a computer or what?  Why would you make the DB-9 on
>>the back of the FT1000MP a male connector?
>
>IBM did this. Their original serial connectors used male DB-25s. When they
>went to the IBM AT and the Serial/Parallel cards, they continued the
>tradition with male DB-9s.
>
>Although typical usage was to have only female DB-25s (and hence DB-9s)
>there was a little-used clause in the RS-232 standard stating that DTEs
>should use male connectors and DCEs female. This was fine for printers and
>modems, but practically no one followed it.
>
>>I'm in the computer business and
>>I don't have a male to male serial cable in my entire inventory at work or
>>at home.  Now I get to go buy some kind of clunky gender changer.
>
>I suppose they have it wired up as a DTE (ie, like the computer). This
>means you have to have a null modem, in addition to the gender change.
>
>Now, if they wired it up like a DCE, then that is truely weird.
>
>I'll be glad when everything moves to FireWire and we can abandon all this
>rot for hermaphroditic connectors.
>
>
>Bill Coleman, AA4LR, AA96LR      Mail: aa4lr@radio.org
>Quote: "Not in a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
>
>


Oh come on now...I got one at Radio Shack!  It's a regular DB9F to DB9F cable,
not a Null cable.  Beats paying $50 minimum for a 3rd party interface!

73, Tyler KF3P