Head down to your favorite Mac computer store.  Pick up a 'Macintosh
modem cable.' It will have an rs422 (round Mac connector) on one
end and a 'female' db-25 on the other.

Another handy cable to pick up is the 'Mac' kick for Palm Pilots.
This will have the round Mac connector and a 'male' db-9 (like on
the back of a PC) on the other.

-- 
Mike Parson
mparson@foad.org

On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, fission wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 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.  =)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> --fission
>