https://community.hpe.com/t5/communications-and-wireless/serial-cable/m-p/3090657#M1928 Dale -<BR />You take me back to my CE days and I connot remember the actual number of active pins, but most are common thus the market for the db9 to db45 converters. This are a shelf item in many retail stores. In the "old days" we would cut the end off and re-pin to the correct connector.<BR /><BR />Best of luck.<BR /><BR />Regards,<BR /><BR />dl Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:39:25 GMT Dave La Mar 2003-10-10T18:39:25Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/communications-and-wireless/serial-cable/m-p/3090655#M1926 What kind of serial cable and configuration is needed to connect a PC with a DB-9-port to the DTC with eight DB-25-ports. Also what MPE-IX instructions are necessary for the HP3000 to acknowledge the PC as a terminal. Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:45:03 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/communications-and-wireless/serial-cable/m-p/3090655#M1926 Dale Severin 2003-10-10T10:45:03Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/communications-and-wireless/serial-cable/m-p/3090656#M1927 Need the model number for the "...DTC with eight DB-25-ports...".<BR /> <BR />Regarding "...what MPE-IX instructions are necessary for the HP3000..."<BR /> <BR />This is a HP-UX forum for HP 9000 servers. Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:15:39 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/communications-and-wireless/serial-cable/m-p/3090656#M1927 Michael Steele_2 2003-10-10T11:15:39Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/communications-and-wireless/serial-cable/m-p/3090657#M1928 Dale -<BR />You take me back to my CE days and I connot remember the actual number of active pins, but most are common thus the market for the db9 to db45 converters. This are a shelf item in many retail stores. In the "old days" we would cut the end off and re-pin to the correct connector.<BR /><BR />Best of luck.<BR /><BR />Regards,<BR /><BR />dl Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:39:25 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/communications-and-wireless/serial-cable/m-p/3090657#M1928 Dave La Mar 2003-10-10T18:39:25Z