Re: Problems with PC to IIe transfer using ADT

["Jack" <Jacked_72@yahoo.com>]

I solved all my problems last night in getting ADT to work.  Here's what
finally worked

1.  Set the Serial Card to 300 baud.  (All settings on the DIP switches
referenced in the ADT readme file stay the same except for SW1-1 and SW1-2
which should be set to "on."

2.  I used Hyperterminal and set it to Com 1, TTY protocol, 300 bps, no
parity, 1 stop bit, Xon/Xoff.

3.  The pinning for the null modem cable in the ADT readme file was not
right for me.  Here's what worked (note that its only 4 pins):

9pin      25pin

2       --     2
3       --     3
4       --     20
5       --     7

I made the cable from a serial extension cable that had  female and male 9
pin connectors..  I took off the casing on the male end, recorded which
wires went to which pins and then heated up the pins to pull them out of the
plastic.  Once I got the pins out, I soldered  pins to wires 2-5.  I simply
plugged these into the corresponding holes on the 25 pin connector on the
serial card.  I did connect a ground to the Apple.

Also when I uploaded the second ADT file (the configuration file) from the
PC to the Apple, I had to set the line delay to 300 milliseconds.  It did
not work right when I had it set for 0 seconds.

The Adt.dmp file seemed to lock up my PC at first (before I got the cabling,
etc. right).  So I created a "test" file in Notepad which consisted of the
word "test."  Then I just uploaded the test.txt file to the Apple.  This
worked a lot quicker than the Adt.dmp file and it let me know that I got the
connections right.

After I got the two ADT files uploaded, I set the DIP switches bact to 19200
baud (SW1-1 and SW1-4 to off) and it worked like a charm.