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