The absolute easiest way is with a NADS box. http://www.club100.org/catalog.html
Rob S Victoria, BC Canada -----Original Message----- From: John Graf <[email protected]> Sender: M100 <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:05:46 To: Model 100 Discussion<[email protected]> Reply-To: Model 100 Discussion <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [M100] Question It would be fun to know the modern answer, too. I've tried various cable converters from serial to USB, without much luck. The last time I made it work flawlessly was with my Mac SE, using the original Mac pin printer cable (which was a null modem cable) back in my newspaper days. The Mac side used Mock Terminal, which we also used to operate our modems. My most recent attempt, some years ago, also successful, was with a serial to USB cable and some version of Z-Term, but on a Mac OS 9 system. Never could make it work with my OS X machines. Using a Terminal emulator on OS X I believe is different than the Terminal software resident on the new Macs. If it can be used as a Comm terminal, I never understood how. Truth be known, while it is fun to use the M100, I've gotten to like my MacBook Pro, on which I run my entire media business, and do all my writing. I even use my old iPad 2 for things like answering this email, though the "screen" keyboard it isn't much good beyond the alphabet. Too many hoops to jump through just to get numbers and other characters. The best solution appears to be those developed by several on this list, like the NADS box, and a couple of other solutions, which escape my memory. If you haven't already, check out Club100.org. - - - - - - - - - - John Graf > On Nov 24, 2015, at 9:46 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I was wondering what is the easiest possible way for someone with very little > technical knowledge to export text files from a trs 80 model 100 to a Mac OS > X laptop? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
