Hi,
        Are the two ports male (they have pins instead of holes) and have 9 pins
in two rows (one of five and one of four)?  If so, it is a good chance that
these are the comm ports.  They do make a 9 pin to 25 pin adapter, just
make sure you get one with the right gender on the ends (they also make a
25 pin to 9 pin which has the genders swapped).  You can also find a cable
that has a nine pin connector on one side and a twenty-five on the other.
 I have always seen these referred to as modem cables.

HTH,
Donald Gaither
On Saturday, September 18, 1999 5:51 AM, Hains [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was asked to install a modem for a friends business computer, its a
very
> old IBM (yes not just a clone its the real McCoy) I can't remember the
model
> name but the number was 100 and its a Pentium with 16mb RAM.
> The modem they had didn't have a cable to connect the modem to the PC,
and
> the PC didn't have a port that would have supported this cable, the PC
does
> however have to open ports labelled A & B, could I use one of these ports
to
> connect the modem, and if so are there adapters available that will
convert
> the larger modem cable to fit a smaller socket ?
>
> A side not is that the PC already has a modem installed (internally)
should
> I remove this b4 adding the new one or could I leave it there with no
> ill-effect ?
>
> I hope you can figure oput what I'm trying to say from that *sheepish
grin*
>
> Cheers
> Kevin Hains

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