Your best bet is to get a Keyspan serial adapter. USB to 9-pin din. You can transfer images from your modern mac or pc to your classic mac if it has a 9-pin din port (which the GS does) and just save them to disk using ADTPro. It's the exact setup I use, and found to work easiest.
Serial adapter: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Twin-Serial-Adapter-Keyspan-Mac-Usb-Port-Retail-/270915976812?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f13d9be6c#ht_1437wt_1398 ADTPro: http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/ -Mike http://www.classicbitbox.com On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:25 PM, dale-gmail wrote: > robert; > > not sure what you want. > appletalk will transfer prodos images from any mac to IIgs > (probably have to have the translater installed to do that) > anyway, i have transfered prodos images from a: > LC 475 (mac OS 8.1)via apple talk to IIgs(mac system 6.0.1). > no problems on this end. > > built a prodos disk (with downloaded images) on IIgs and ran a basic program > o.k. > > downloading images from internet to SE should be o.k. > > dale > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Alpizar" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 9:11 PM > Subject: IIgs and Compact Mac? > > >> I have a few questions. I recently acquired a IIgs that I want to >> complement with an older Mac for disk image transfers, etc. What I >> was thinking, was getting something like an SE with an ethernet card >> to pull down disk images from my newer machines and use the floppy in >> the SE to transfer images to prodos disks for the IIgs. Either that, >> or getting a cable to transfer from the SE to the IIgs via localtalk. >> My questions are: >> >> Do system 6 or 7 behave with the IIgs in respect to ProDOS disks >> reading/writing or AppleTalk? >> Is there a better way of managing disk image conversion/transfer than >> what I have planned? >> >> -- >> ----- >> You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our >> netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To leave this group, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs >> >> Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- Sent from my iMac -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
