Subject: Re: pinout on serial port on powerbook (wallstreet)?
To: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
From: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/04/1999 16:37:00
> From: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
> Organization: Delaware Technical & Community College
> To: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>, port-pmax@netbsd.org
pmax?

> DTE of 230kbps. For some reason Apple never made a 56K GeoPort modem
> (all models had voice mail/fax and some sort of speech recognition
> features). And it seems that they have abandoned the technology
> alltogether. As for the actual function of the Ninth pin, I have no
> idea. I don't have a pinout for the Mini-8, but I will check it out as I
> believe I have a doc saved on my computer at home that has DB-9 to
> Mini-8/9 conversion.

Hm. It could be like this??

     NeXT 68040 to Modem Cable

     Mini-Din       RS-232
     1   (DTR)      20   (DTR)
     2   (DCD)      8    (DCD)
     3   (TXD)      2    (TXD)
     4   (GND)      7    (GND)
     5   (RXD)      3    (RXD)
     6   (RTS)      4    (RTS)
     8   (CTS)      5    (CTS)

But before I nuke my 1000 DM phone and my PowerBook, I would like to hear  
some comments...

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