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System Unit Rear Panel Connectors

Serial Input/Output Connectors

There are a variety of pointing devices (mouse or trackball) or peripheral devices that can attach to the Serial Input/Output (SIO) ports on the worksta- tion. Peripheral devices include printers, plotters, modems, and scanners. Consult the documentation that accompanies each peripheral device for spe- cific information concerning its use.

The SIO ports are programmable, allowing functions such as bit rate, char- acter length, parity, and stop bits to be set. The SIO Ports are used as inter- faces for serial asynchronous devices to the CPU. The ports operate at up to a 460.8 K baud rate.

Table 5 shows the SIO connector pin listings. The serial connectors are 9-pin D-sub connectors. Signal names are those specified in the EIA RS-232 stan- dard.

Table 5

Serial I/O Pins

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pin No.

 

Signal

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

DCD

Data Carrier Detect

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

RXD

Receive Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

TXD

Transmit Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

 

DTR

Data Terminal Ready

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

GND

Ground

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

 

DSR

Data Set Ready

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

 

RTS

Request To Send

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

CTS

Clear To Send

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

 

RI

Ring Indicator

 

 

 

 

 

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HP C180 manual Serial Input/Output Connectors, Serial I/O Pins Pin No Signal Description