[rescue] Serial console cable for SUN IPC

[Steve Pacenka]

Thomas Bader wrote:

> I got an quite old SUN SparcStation IPC.  On the IPC's back,
> there are two serial ports.
> =

> The two serial ports are a bit special; they're round.
> I guess, it's a kind of Mini-DIN.

As Ken noted, a Mac serial cable is useful.

Mac printer cables were wired as null modems and Mac modem cables were wi=
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straight through.  To connect a dumb terminal or another computer to an I=
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requires the null modem type of cable.

The earliest Mac serial cables lacked hardware handshaking lines.  Device=
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throttled with XON/XOFF.

-- SP