HELP! SSC/][e trouble!

[valthoff@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Victoria M Althoff)]

Please note:  This is crossposted to c.s.a2.programmer and c.s.a2, in hopes of 
hitting all of the experts.  Thanks.

HELP!!!
As I have mentioned numerous times, I communicate with the Net using an Apple 
Lisa 2/5 and an extraordinarily STUPID VT-100 emulator which supports only 
ASCII file transfers, and those not very well.  Next to the Lisa sits a 
perfectly good ][e, complete with a late-model Super Serial Card.  My first 
assignment is to get full communications between the two computers so that I 
can move data from LisaWrite to AppleWriter and vice-versa.  Then, I want to 
get the E up and running with the modem.

Here's the problem:  The SSC is flaky.  Connecting the two computers together, 
SSC to Lisa's Serial-B (the async. port, for those of you who know Lisa), there
is only one configuration that works at all, and it shouldn't.
][e:  Jumper to TERMINAL (or use null-modem), 8N1 format, 1200 baud
Lisa:  (always expects modem or null-modem), 8N1 format, 3600 baud
This is the ONLY configuration that works.  Matching baud rates doesn't work.  
Running the E at 3600 and Lisa at 1200 doesn't work.  And the one 'working' 
configuration only allows data to go ][e-->Lisa, not the other way.
I'm not using any software yet, so that's not the problem.  Just IN#2/PR#2 and 
watch the Applesoft prompts appear on the Lisa.

Anybody got any ideas???
--Dave Althoff, Jr.  (valthoff@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
(Thanks in advance!)