[OT] SGI Indgio2 console
Jason Stephenson
jason at sigio.com
Mon May 5 10:00:30 EDT 2003
Tom Buskey wrote:
> Older macintoshes had the round connectors too. The pin out was
> completely different. You might be able to cut one up & rewire it.
It's RS-432. (I'm not 100% that I got the number exactly right.) It's
"superior" to RS-232, depending on the source, but it is more or less
compatible with the right cable. What he wants is a RS-432 to RS-232
null modem (aka printer) cable. Where to find such a beast, I have no idea.
I used to maintain a few SGIs including Indigo2s. They are still decent
machines for simple workstation stuff and graphics visualization,
provided they have enough RAM. The MIPS processor is RISC-based, and RAM
seems to affect performance on RISC machines more than CISC machines.
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