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Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo
So after learning that some 9 pin cables have wacky pinouts with pins sometimes mixing with other pins and crossing over and sometimes not even going through to the other side and poo poo and also buying these cables for my diy project and learning that they're effectively useless to me...

Is there any 9 pin cable out there that just has pin 1 goes to pin 1 on the other side for all 9 pins? Hell I'd even take a pinout where all 9 pins just go to the other side without any funny business beyond a mixed up pinout because I can work with that. If anyone knows what I'm looking for please help

I for one cannot believe there aren't many options for outdated tech cables

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Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo

Maneki Neko posted:

Which gender?

This work, the listing indicates straight through pins

https://www.cablestogo.com/product/52087/6ft-db9-m-m-serial-rs232-cable-black

That might work. I'm needing a F/M cable

I didn't think to look for extension cables so thanks for that

Snazzy Frocks fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Aug 10, 2018

Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo
I appreciate the responses. One side I soldered and the other side I used screw terminals and this cord is bridging that gap. I just received an extension cable that I'm going to try today which hopefully solves my problem.

e: extension cable worked like i needed it to, thanks

Snazzy Frocks fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Aug 14, 2018

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