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From: tagreen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd A. Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Linking an Mac...
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.190630.467@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 19:06:30 GMT
References: <63724@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <63724@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v564huce@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>Chris Del Grande writes:
>
>After just purchasing a second Macintosh, I would like to be able to transfer
>the contents of the internal drive of my Mac Classic onto the internal
>drive of my MacIIsi. Is there an easy (not be efficient) way of transfer-
>ing this data via direct serial cable hookups? Someone mentioned something
>about a null-modem (sp?) configuration, but I have little idea if this is an
>acceptable means, or how to go about setting it up. I do have telecomm-
>unications software (if needed) and I'm willing to purchase
>CarbonCopyMac or similar software package if needed.
>
>	How about "direct AppleTalk"?  A couples of friends and I used a
>standard ImageWriter cable to link an SE and SE/30 for a little Falcon session. 
>It worked fine and was a hell of a lot of fun!!!
>	There might be some technical probs that I am not aware of.  If there
>is, could someone with more network experience correct me or comment on this
>method??  Thanks.
>
>						Allen Hsu 


As far as I know there is no difference between the DIN-8 cable used
for an ImageWriter II and the localtalk cables provided by Apple,
as far as functionality between two machines goes.  That is to say
you could not daisy-chain the ImageWriter cables, but you can
hook two machines directly together.  I've also used the cable
to hook my IIcx up to a friends Plus to play falcon.  Sure beat 2400
baud.

One other thing you'll have to remember is that you'll still need some
type of software to to the file tranfering.  I'd suggest getting
public-folder.

Todd
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