DEC Professional/Rainbow/Decmate cable (From Tony Duell) 1 >----------+---------+-- Blue Gnd 9 >-------O---------O-- Blue 2 >----------+---------+-- Green Gnd 10 >-------O---------O-- Green 3 >----------+---------+-- Red Gnd 11 >-------O---------O-- Red 4 >----------+---------+-- Mono Gnd 12 >-------O---------O-- Mono 5 >----+ 13 >-+ +------------ Power Gnd 6 >----------+------------ Key Gnd 14 >-------------------- From Key 7 >----------------------- Power 12V 15 >-------------------- To Key 8 >----------------------- Key 12V LK201 keyboard (RJ11-- front face view) ------- | | ----- ----- | | | | | | -- ^ ^ ^ ^-- | | | | From Key -----+ | | +----- To Key Key 12V----------+ +-------- Key Gnd --------------------------------------- DEC VAXstation 15-pin Dsub (from BSDfans.org) 1 - RED output (Color FB only) 2 - COLOR_GND (Color FB only) 3 - MONO_GND 4 - +5V DC 5 - MOUSE_RX 6 - KBD_GND 7 - GND 8 - +12V DC 9 - MONO output (Video signal + /VSYNC + /HSYNC) 10 - GREEN output (Green signal + /VSYNC + /HSYNC) (Color FB only) 11 - BLUE output (Color FB only) 12 - -12V DC 13 - MOUSE_TX 14 - KBD_RX 15 - KBD_TX keyboard: ----------- I I 1 - Serial output I 1 2 3 4 I 2 - GND I I 3 - VCC (+12 V) I I 4 - Serial input ---I I--- ----- mouse: /---#---\ / 5 6 7 \ I 3 --- 4 I \ 1 2 / \#-----#/ (This should look like a 7-pin mini-din connector) 1 - Serial input 2 - GND 3 - VDD -12V 4 - Serial output 5 - not connected 6 - VCC +12V 7 - VCC +5V