[GreenKeys] New Motherboard has a DB-9 serial port for us TTY users! HASW...

[Jones, Douglas W]

On Sep 16, 2014, at 1:36 AM, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:

> Simon - yea  the  Pi  is indeed reasonable!   but  no db 9!

I bought an RS232 port for my Pi for about $6
You can find them on eBay, for example:
-- http://www.ebay.com/itm//271563792230

I added an extender to the GPIO header to raise the board a bit,
and I was then able to add a nylon mounting screw and standoff
to my Raspberry case to give the DB9 plug a very firm footing.

	Doug Jones
	jones at cs.uiowa.edu