Re: Apple // networking?

[Paul Bramscher <brams006@tc.umn.edu>]

Is it possible to get a null modem cable from the apple //c to the Mac iici?  I'd
rather not have the "legacy" computers physically near my linux server for
aesthetic/space reasons.

Also, I've got two Apple //e's.  Is that a whole different ballgame?  What kind of
communications card can you plop into them?

 It's kind of a historical challenge to get different OS's talking to each other.  At
work, I'll download things from the internet onto an NT machine, bring them home on a
ZIP disk and load them onto my Win98 box.  From there I can ftp them locally over to
my Linux, Mac iici or Performa machines.  Might as well toss in ProDOS somehow if
it's possible.....  Maybe I should just forget the //c and //e and pick up a cheap
//gs somewhere?

Mike Pfaiffer wrote:

> Paul Bramscher wrote:
>
> > I've got a full Apple //c system and a small home LAN (including Win98
> > box, Linux server, and a networked Mac iici).
> >
> > Just for amusement, I'm curious whether it's possible to network the
> > Apple //c somehow into my environment.  As I understand it, it's
> > possible to run a TCP/IP stack on a //gs (that won't help me here).  But
> > I'm wondering if it's possible to network my //c via the Mac iici
> > (serial connection, apple talk?).  Anyone ever do this sort of thing
> > before?
> >
> > -Paul Bramscher
> > brams006@tc.umn.edu
>
>         You could always pick up a null modem cable and use the //c as a terminal
> to the Linux box. Grab a term program somewhere and you can transfer
> files with ZMODEM. Naturally you'll need a spare serial port (which are
> cheap).
>
>                                 Later
>                                 Mike
>
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