On Fri, 18 Mar 2016, David Riley wrote:
On Mar 18, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
That said, does anyone have an MMJ crimper they could bring to VCF? And I good source for the connectors themselves?
Yes and yes. I brought mine last year (have dies for MMJ and standard 8p8c as well as standard 6p6c and various wire terminal crimpers), and will bring again. I have pretty full bags of MMJ and both solid and stranded 8p8c plugs.
For the connectors, they're actually surprisingly easy to come across. For example: http://www.pacificcable.com/Picture_Page.asp?DataName=MMJ or http://www.neobits.com/pan_pacific_pt_066dec_rj_11_mmj_dec_plugs_qty_100_p39... (I've used Pacific, but the other one is probably just as good for $10 less).
If you have a Paladin Crimp-All 8000 frame (and you should, because it's a great tool), the Paladin die for MMJ is 2067.
Excellent. I only need to make up a few cables, and having found the Pacific Cable source earlier, don't really want to buy 100 of them. 30-585 is the Ideal Crimpmaster MMJ/DECconnect die, of which there seems to be exactly one on eBay, bundled with three other dies I already have. I'll skip that. I should figure/find out mappings from MMJ RS-232 to Cisco/Sun and maybe Xyplex RJ-45 serial. If I don't need to switch back and forth between D-sub and modular and back again, I'd rather not, even if it means I'm making a one-off special unicorn cable. -- Jameel Akari