benjgvps, I think it's time you let us know what exactly it is you are trying to do. One of your PowerBooks has USB AND a SERIAL port?
All you need to do is GOOGLE Apple Imagewriter Cable and you will come up with numerous vendors around the world who still sell mini DIN-8 printer cables for the old Mac. Not sure why you are opposed to an auction site, as eBay has many buy-it-now vendors which do not require an actual auction to purchase.
But if you have USB, depending on what you are trying to do, there are all kinds of options now. FYI, unless you are trying to NETWORK your PowerBooks, you should be able to use SCSI DISK MODE to use one of them as a hard drive for the other. Like I said, all kinds of options.
All you need to do is GOOGLE Apple Imagewriter Cable and you will come up with numerous vendors around the world who still sell mini DIN-8 printer cables for the old Mac. Not sure why you are opposed to an auction site, as eBay has many buy-it-now vendors which do not require an actual auction to purchase.
But if you have USB, depending on what you are trying to do, there are all kinds of options now. FYI, unless you are trying to NETWORK your PowerBooks, you should be able to use SCSI DISK MODE to use one of them as a hard drive for the other. Like I said, all kinds of options.