In article <1187979556.882467.309440@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, sampsal@gmail.com wrote:
> I figured I could just give it a PPP connection from another box IF I > could find an adapter from the 8-pin port to a normal DB9 male port, > and then stick a null modem cable between that and another box. > > Do such adapters exist?
Sampsa-
The standard Macintosh Modem cable would have the mini-DIN8 connector at one end and a DB-25M at the other end. You could use a 25 pin to 9 pin adapter and have your null-modem adapter on either side, depending on how many pins it has.
Or you could use a Macintosh Serial Printer cable, which uses the null-modem configuration to match a common serial printer port such as the one on the old ImageWriter I.
These cables used to be available at rather high prices. At one time I purchased a long mini-DIN8 printer cable intended for the newer ImageWriter II, cut it in half and made two Modem cables out of it. The only problem was that the wire colors were different for each end due to its null-modem configuration!
