Options available are SheepShaver which emulates a PowerMac or Basilisk II, which is similar.

A driver is needed to enable the USB device to appear as an additional serial port available to the Mac ie.

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You can visit the manufacturers website to download these or you can download the drivers here (in the event the link every expires).

As well as installing packages it also enables the keyboard to be used.

It does not seem to work for a calendar though, although did for the address book.

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For Macs being really easy, its not super clear what happens when you plug in a device that the Mac doesnt have a driver for.

So I turned to Google, below is what I came up with that seemed to work for me.

Im sure weve all seen the very popular USB to COM adapter that looks like this.

At any rate, this guy had a link to a set of drivers that worked for me.

Once I did that, I was able to see the device from the terminal.

Once I plugged it in, the USB to COM adapter showed up as a valid TTY device (PL2303-00003014).

The screen app is what Ill be using as a terminal emulator to connect to the device console ports.

Once your adapter shows up, connecting is pretty straight forward.

When you run that you should get kicked to a blank white screen.

Bang, bang the enter key a couple of times and you should be on your device.

This will bring up a message at the bottom of the window that looks like this.

Pretty simple right After using this for awhile, and not being careful about closing my sessions, I eventually ran into this error.

But if you dont know what youre doing a nix box, this can be frustrating.

Basically, this means that theres still a copy of screen running thats holding onto the device you are trying to use (the com adapter).

From that output, we find the screen app, and then determine its process number (far left number).

This makes things slightly easier so I thought Id give it a go.

Heres what I came up with by hacing pieces of other peoples scripts together.

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