Here are the pinouts for a Macintosh-to-video disc player cable.
Macintosh Plus Video Disk Player
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Mini-Circular 8 (Male) RS-232 DB-25 (Male)
Frame Ground 1 1 Frame Ground
CTS 2 6
DSR
TXD 3 3 RXD
Signal Ground 4 7 Signal Ground
RXD 5 2 TXD
On the DB-25 side, connect pins 4 (RTS), 6 (DSR), and 20 (DTR) together.
This cable has been tried and tested with the following video disc
players:
- Sony 1000A
- Sony 1500
- Sony 2000
- Philips VP406
- Pioneer LDV6000