On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 02:52PM, Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>I'd like to try booting my powermac 7300 using a serial console, but I
>don't have another mac available to serve as a terminal.  instead I'd
>like to use my thinkpad laptop, running NetBSD 1.6/i386.
>
>The trouble is that I can't find the necessary cable to pull this off;
>the Mac has an unusual serial cable.  Has anyone done this before?
>

Some would argue, that the IBM-PC has an unusual serial cable ;)

Mac's use RS-422 that allows higher speeds and longer cables than RS-232, but you can use it with RS-232 anyway.

Check out
    http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/Hardware/Misc/serial.html


Daniel