Rick -
For a hardware fix, you can try:
IBM PN 58F2861
PRINTER/TERMINAL INTERPOSER
A14F8000000
This is one of those connectors that came with your machine in the
fancy plastic book-style folder. On the off chance that you have
thrown it away by now, the connector is a M/F DB-25 with the
following pin out:
Female Male
1 ----------------------- Hood/Chassis ground
2 ------------------\/--- 2
3 ------------------/\--- 3
4 ------------------\/--- 4
5-------------------/\--- 5
6 -------------------.--- 20
8 -------------------|
7 ----------------------- 7
20 -------------------.--- 6
|--- 8
We use these to connect a group of IBM RS-6K console ports into a
serial multiplexer. The multiplexer concentrates the consoles onto
a single workstation. The individual consoles can then be accessed
from across the net by X-windowing into the console concentrator
workstation. Saves quite a bit of glass (and rack space) in the machine
room.
-- Tom
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Thomas A. Harper Pacific Northwest Laboratories (PNL), Battelle
Sr. Research Scientist Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory
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