Connecting Tandy to Apple IIe or Mac?

[Dave Shaffer <DCS4@psuvm.psu.edu>]

I recently acquired one of those older portable Tandy computers. This one
has a flip up LCD screen, some built-in software for spreadsheets and
word processing, a modem, and a telecommunications package. A reporter
I knew had used one to draft stories and send them to her newspaper's
"dumb dump" computer system. It has very limited memory capacity.

I'm trying to imagine how it could be useful to me as a "portable
keyboard" of sorts. Perhaps this would be more trouble than it
would be owrth, I don't know. But it is an interesting question.

I use a Macintosh computer system at the office and I have an
old Aplle IIe here at home. I use the mac for all sorts of things
and the IIe mostly as a remote terminal to the mainframe, as I
am doing now. All three computers have modems, if that is part
of the answer.

I s there a way I could sue the Tandy to draft text files, then
dump them off to either the Mac or the IIe (or both?) for further
processing? I have a little experience using both the Mac and the
IIe for telecommunications but very limited experience with the
Tandy.

I'm posting this note here thinking that perhaps someone out
there has already tried this or is currently doing this same sort
of thing.

PS -- Yeah, I'd rather have a powerbook, but at the moment, the
Tandy is what I have. Besides -- think of it as a challenge...

Oh, yeah, reply to DCS4 at PSUVM with any suggestions or advice.
Thanks!     - Dave