This piece of knowledge is a few months old... so it might not be so prevalently available.
login as >console with no password
the machine will drop to a full screen command prompt. what we need now is some kind of standard for usb serial terminals How would that be for plug and play?
I'd love for someone to make one. the one thing I need an old pc from time to time for is to plug serial into a router or sun box. new pcs and all macs have usb and no serial port.
Just buy a USB to serial adapter. The folks at MacAddict have used a USB to serial converter to sucessfully attach a terminal to a G4 tower running OS X.