Re: Apple IIe to PC Null-Modem How-to Question

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <cuh4iu0qcg@news2.newsguy.com>, David Chiu <none@nowhere.org> wrote:
>
>Serial cards for the IIs usually have a DB25 female connector. A DB9 female on
>a IIe is either the Mouse (if it's connected to a card in some way) or
>Joystick (connector is soldered to the motherboard.)
>
>DIN5 you hear about for the MACs (bleh) or the IIC+/IIGS.

Macs have DIN-8 or (for older Macs) DB-9 (but not the same pinout as
the PC DB-9).

IIRC, there are a few programs out there to do serial communication
through the joystick port.  You'd either need a driver (MAX232 or
equivalent) or an RS-422 port on the other end to use this.