Hi,

I have been using a computer to keep track of inventory for my business. I am pretty sure it runs on Unix. In the back of the computer there is some sort of PCI card that has about 8 RJ-11 ports on it. I use that card to connect the Unix system to my 3 VT-220 terminals. I use a simple 6 wire phone cord to connect the terminal to the system, however, when I connect the cord to the terminal, I use an adapter to plug it into that. The only ports on the back of the terminals are 3 parallel ports (atleast that's what they look like), so I use an RJ-11 to DB25 adapter to plug it into one of the three. It works fine, but what I was wondering was if I could simply just take the adapter and plug it into my laptop which runs Windows XP and use an emulation program of some sort. I have tried this before but couldn't really get it to work right. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

You need to use the serial port not parallel port (terminals have 25 pin serial ports)

Check out the following info:

Sun - connecting terminal - some helpful info
terminal how-to
vt100.net Everything you never wanted to know about terminals.