And where
would I get somethign to mate with a DB-9 connector?
Easy.
You take a DB25, and remove pins
9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,21,22,23,24,25
Why those pins? Removing 1, 9..19, 21, 23..25 would leave me the pins for
the RS232 signals that appear on a PC/AT serial port (DE9).
-tony