Subject: Re: How to make a funky serial cable
To: fission <fission@mb.sympatico.ca>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/27/2000 20:17:44
fission <fission@mb.sympatico.ca> writes:
> I have a new (okay, old) terminal that I would like to use with my
> powermac running NetBSD/macppc.  The only problem is that my serial port
> on a Macintosh is a DB8 (I think that's what it's called, anyways -
> whatever Mac serial ports use) and the terminal has a 25-pin serial port.
> Any idea on how to make a cable that would convert between the two?
> 
> Even if I could get two diagrams (one for the Mac cable and one for 25-pin
> serial cable) I could probably figure out how to make it work.  Any URLs
> for images/ASCII diagrams would just make my day.  =)

http://www.rs232.com/

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