Daniel,
To connect a vintage Mac to a PC, you need a serial "null-modem" cable,
which connects between the "Modem" port on the Mac and the "COM" port on the
PC. Not easy to find as a commercial product, but very simple to make if
you have the proper connectors. I made mine from an extra Mac printer cable
I had and a 99-cent DB-9 male I picked up somewhere.
Easier yet is to get a standard modem cable for each computer, and a
"null-modem adapter" from an electronics store or even Radio $hack. Such
an adapter is usually a small block with 2 female DB-25 jacks, which the two
standard modem cables plug into and essentially cross-route the transmitted
data to the received data on each of the respective cables.
Then, with this hookup, you can use a terminal program (For the Mac: Zterm,
Red Ryder, etc. On the PC side, even Windows built-in HyperTerminal will
do) on each side to send the data using an error-correcting protocol like
Xmodem or Zmodem.
More practical, I think, is to use a shareware program called StarGate,
which is actually designed to do this type of transfer. If you need more
information, contact me off-list.
(By the way, it may have been me you were referring to as sending "a
previous post", but I wrote to you privately off-list. :-)
Bob
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To: "Compact Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 6:37 PM
Subject: Transferring files
> Someone mentioned in a previos post that there is a way to transfer files
> directly from a PC to A Macintosh. Since hooking my CC up to the internet
is
> going to be a challenge, it seems it would be much easier just to DL the
> programs I want onto my PC, then dump them over to the Mac. This would
also
> save the splitting of large files onto floppies.
>
> So how would one go about doing that? How do you connect the two units? Do
> you use a special cable, and if so, what kind and where do you connect it?
>
> Daniel
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