On 19 Oct 2006 at 2:22, Jack Patteeuw wrote:
> I'm looking for a "reasonably priced" supplier of H8575-E DECconnect 
> adapters.  The HP online store says they are no longer available.

Good news, bad news.

The good news: the pinout is here:

  http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/cable/dec-mmj.html#h75e

The bad news: you can't buy MMJ sockets anywhere anymore.


However, the page says that it's almost the same as H8575-A, which 
has various vendors as low as $15.  Good luck!

--Stan Quayle
Quayle Consulting Inc.

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Stanley F. Quayle wrote:
> On 19 Oct 2006 at 2:22, Jack Patteeuw wrote:
>> I'm looking for a "reasonably priced" supplier of H8575-E DECconnect 
>> adapters.  The HP online store says they are no longer available.
> 
> Good news, bad news.
> 
> The good news: the pinout is here:
> 
>   http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/cable/dec-mmj.html#h75e

   For as long as it remains available, there are numerous adapter pinouts and 
cable pinouts (and the associated part numbers) and such at the old Ask The 
Wizard site.  <http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/wizard/>  Look for DECconnect 
Passive Adapters (and the Cables Guide) in the left navigation on that page. 
Various DECconnect materials are archived there.  The H8575-E is among those 
adapters with its pinouts displayed there, and there are a gazillion cables.

> The bad news: you can't buy MMJ sockets anywhere anymore.

   The MMJ was a Bell Labs design (there are three keys for the modular jack 
series, with the middle keyed variant being far and away the most familiar), and 
you can buy the jacks and the crimping tools.  Black Box offers a kit for 
building your own, and various related tools and parts.

   As for this particular DECconnect adapter, the H8575-E is the adapter I was 
using to connect a VT-series terminal into the serial DB25M on the Integrity 
rx2600 series management port.

"Stanley F. Quayle" <squayle@insight.rr.com> writes:

> The bad news: you can't buy MMJ sockets anywhere anymore.

Not even in the UK? They where `standard' BT phone conections
at one time.

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Stanley F. Quayle wrote:
> The bad news: you can't buy MMJ sockets anywhere anymore.
> 

They must be around somewhere. Telstra (Australian Telecom) use
them on the power supplies for a large number of their fixed
line phones.

Regards, Tim.

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Tim Sneddon wrote:
> Stanley F. Quayle wrote:
> > The bad news: you can't buy MMJ sockets anywhere anymore.
> >
>
> They must be around somewhere. Telstra (Australian Telecom) use
> them on the power supplies for a large number of their fixed
> line phones.
>
> Regards, Tim.
>
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You probably have to be a big user and order directly from a
manufacturer.  The companies selling new cables certainly must be
getting them from somewhere.  You just can't get "small" quantities
like 100's from anyone.

"johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com" wrote:
ufacturer.  The companies selling new cables certainly must be
> getting them from somewhere.  You just can't get "small" quantities
> like 100's from anyone.

BLACK BOX still sellls lots of "legacy" cables and connectors.