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Old 25-05-2013, 07:09 PM
Garbz (Chris)
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Originally Posted by troypiggo View Post
The USB part of the cable I had in mind would be something like this from FTDI that has a built-in circuit that does USB to serial RS232 capability.

That CN link you posted was IIS's very own Dennis!
That is exactly what I have spliced to a DB9 cable in my case. This seems to be a popular way to do it, just make sure you get the one with the FTDI232 chip in the USB part of the cable, not the serial part or you won't be too happy when you cut it up
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