[Info-vax] USB/DB9 terminal converter for RX2660

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-06-06, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2016-06-06 kl. 20:45, skrev Simon Clubley:
>> On 2016-06-06, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>> It also made little sense in a newsreader which can usually present
>>> quoted-pukeable in a readable format. :(
>>>
>>> Was the diagram composed using a proportional font, I wonder?
>>>
>>
>> Yes it appears to have been. I took a quick look at the post using
>> Google Groups and more of it aligns up than when using a character cell
>> reader.
>>
>
> Here is my guess of what it should have looked like
> usig fixed font ans shorter total lines.
>
>_________      ______     _______     ________
>|       |      |    |     |     |     |      |
>|       |      |    |     |     |     |      |
>|rx2660 |      |USB |     |DB9  |     |      |
>|USB    | <->  |DB9 | <-> |USB  | <-> |Silex |<->  To Mac
>|       |      |?   |     |Key  |     |USB   |   via network
>|       |      |    |     |span |     |      |
>---------      ------     -------     --------
>

Thanks. _Now_ I can see what he's trying to do. (I think. :-))

So if Rob's interfacing via a DB9, anything to the right of the DB9
nearest to the rx2660 doesn't matter as far as VMS is concerned.

What he would need is for one of the various serial port USB protocols
to be supported both at the rx2660 console level and in VMS itself.
That would be either one of the closed specifications such as the
PL-2303 or FTDI protocols or the open USB CDC ACM protocol.

As for whether they are supported I don't know because I've never
used one of those boxes.

Simon.

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