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From: bskendig@rise.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple IIe ==> Mac
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Date: 20 Apr 91 14:44:35 GMT
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In article <91110.022642PS9ZRHMC@MIAMIU.BITNET> PS9ZRHMC@MIAMIU.BITNET (Peter Sweeney) writes:
>There is a professor on campus that has 30 disks full of
>Apple IIe documents that he has written over the last 8 years.
>Last month he bought a Mac.  He wants to convert from
>the Apple to the Mac.

Sounds like the easiest thing to do is a null modem transfer!

Get a terminal program on your Mac, and another one on the Apple.
Then I believe you'll have to buy a "Mac serial <-> RS232" connector
from your local computer hardware store, as well as whatever cable
you'll need to make the Apple plug into RS232.

The trick then is to buy a "null modem" -- a small female-to-female
connector, I believe, which swaps two wires on the RS232 cable so your
two machines can talk to each other (otherwise both machines would be
talking on the same line, and listening on the same other line).

Your machines will then be directly connected.  You can transfer your
text files to the Mac at whatever speed you like, preferably the
fastest speed that the Apple will handle.  Piece of cake!

The only catch, of course, is that you have to find the cables and
null modem, and buy them (I know it's upwards of $10 for the little
null modem thingy, for some odd reason).  If the professor balks,
well, it's the only feasible way.

Good luck!

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