From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] PDP 11/34a Serial Communications Problem
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 15:38:28 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170205203828.2A5F918C0BE@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Mark Hare
> For a more permanent solution, I designed a simple adapter board that
> connects to the BERG 40 connector on the DL11-W and converts it to a DB9
> serial port ... I also ordered a 40-pin (non-IDE) ribbon cable to
> connect the DL11-W to my adapter.
> When I connected everything, the 11/34 would start but no lights would
> appear on the front panel. I tried disconnecting the adapter but leaving
> the ribbon cable plugged into the BERG connector, but the problem
> persisted. When I removed the ribbon cable entirely, the unit powered on
> with no problems.
That's extremely odd. There isn't a pin on the DL11-W Berg connector which
should be able to cause anything like that kind of behaviour. The only
_possible_ thing I can think of, looking at the list of signals on the Berg,
is that you are grounding +5 (TT). Either that, or your DL11-W has some
serious issue?
> Since this is a straight-through ribbon cable, I don't see what could be
> causing this problem.
Me either. But clearly it's not just a straight-through ribbon cable....
I myself wouldn't have gone that route; one can obtain 40-pin IDE/DuPont (they
are all .1" spacing pins, and basically interchangeable, module keying)
connector shells, and female pins for same; I would have made a custom cable
to plug into the Berg with that, to a DE-9S or DB-9P connector (depending on
whether one wanted one wired as a DCE or DTE). (I myself make such cables, but
to a DB-25S connector, and then use a commercial DB-25P to DE-9S adapter when
needed.) Oh well...
Does the DL11-W still work, using the jumper cables kludge?
Noel
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2017-02-05 20:38 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2017-02-05 20:58 ` Mark Hare
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2017-02-05 22:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-02-05 20:03 Mark Hare
2017-02-05 20:36 ` Michael Kjörling
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