On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Nikolai Vladychevski wrote:

> I had to do it myself, because I had no 30$ for that cable, and besides 
> to ship it here, where I live would cost me a lot. I wasnt using the 
> cable as a console, but as a serial connection from Mac  to my Linux box. 
>  My recommendation is to check it before buy, because Mac serial 
> interface is RS-422 and PC's is RS-232, due to the diference every cable 
> type has its own diferent mapping. I got one cable that didnt work using 
> Mac as a console to Linux box,  for example.
> 
> If you want to make it yourself use this info:
> 
> http://www.mindspring.com/~jc1/serial/Resources/DIN8toDB25.html
> 
> It's very complete, but if you dont want the details, just connect this 
> pins:
> DIN 8     DB 25
> (3)TxD-   ->   (3)RxD
> (5) RxD-  ->   (2)TxD
> (4)COM    ->   (7) COM

Actually, you should also hook RxD+ (forgot which pin) to ground. It'll
work w/o, but if the RxD+ input starts to float to large voltages, you
might get weird errors.

Take care,

Bill