Slight hardware-hacking fail

[hirez]

Things I found in my Useful Box of Cable-ish Items:

An ADB cable.
A CV/Gate adapter suitable for clocking a digital delay from a SH101. (The very SH101 that's probably still round Chaos's house)
A jumble of USB-phone cables, all for phones that are long since dead.
A sturdy wall-wart that'll provide 5vDC (useful).
A power-brick for a HP Omnibook (Less useful, but I can hack the low-voltage end off and solder it to the above to make something really useful).
A clock-radio.
A bar-code reader.
A single-action air ram.

Things I did not find:

A null-modem cable. Curses! Although I did find one with a 25-way end. I will have thrown out all the 9-25 converters, and if I haven't, the one I find will be the wrong way round.

Java's still a right sack of pants, mind.

Comments

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

I have a parallel null modem adapter if you want it. Small block with Centronics on one side and 25-pin parallel on t'other. Turns a parallel printer cable into a laplink cable.

Although I suspect you're after serial, not parallel.

Email me if you want it and I'll dig it out and chuck it in the post.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I was indeed after a serial one. In the end, I crufted it with the Interfaker - cross Rx + Tx and away it went. A pox on moulded cables.

There's also a problem with the Javaxcomm library, but that's going to want proper fixing with a compiler.