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IntroductiontoSerialCIMs..........................................................................188

InstallingaSeria

lCIM...................................................................................189

OperatingaSeria

lCIM .................................................................................191

Introduction to Serial CIMs

ToconnectanASCIIserialdevice,LAN/WANcomponentoraserver

throughaserialport(RS‐232)totheParagonIIsystem,useoneofour

serialCIMs.TheyareP2CIM‐SER,P2CIM‐SER‐EUandAUATC.These

CIMscanemulateanASCIIterminalandconverttheserialdatafromthe

ASCIIdevicetoVG

Avideo(800x600x60)andPS/2keyboardsignals.This

conversionallowsuserstoaccessandoperateanyASCIIserialdevice

connectedtotheParagonIIsystem.

ThetableliststheportdifferenceoftheserialCIMs:

Model Serial port Local port

P2CIM‐SER







P2CIM‐SER‐EU







AUATC

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

UsuallytheuseofP2CIM‐SERorP2CIM‐SER‐EUisenoughtosatisfy

yourneedstoaccessaserialdevice,unlessyouneedtoconnectalocal

PS/2orSunkeyboardandaVGAmonitortothedevice.Inthatcase,

chooseAUATC,whichprovidesalocalport.

Herearesom

eusefulfeaturesofserialCIMs:

• InteroperateswithanASCIIdeviceintheOnLineModeasifthe

devicewereattachedtoatextterminal

• Edits,copies,marks,and/orresendsdatatotheASCIIserialdeviceor

serverintheBufferEditMode

• Maintainseightpagesofda

tainacircularbuffer

• Provides12programmablekeysforfrequently‐usedcharacterstrings

orcommands

Appendix E Connecting Serial Devices to

Paragon II System

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