Re: file transfer: Mac PowerBook <-> IIc+

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <cklipsch-3EB4F2.00112126052005@corp.supernews.com>,
Colin Klipsch  <cklipsch@radix.net> wrote:
>In one corner, I have a Mac G3 PowerBook, with built-in modem, running 
>MacOS X and Z-Term.
>
>In the other corner I have an Apple IIc+, with a Global Village 56K 
>modem, running ProDOS and ProTerm 3.1.
>
>With this hardware and software, I didn't think I needed a null modem 
>connector or any other utilities.  I simply connected the two modems 
>with a standrad telephone cable -- the kind that normally connects a 
>phone or modem to the wall -- and tried transferring files via the 
>ZModem protocol, using Z-Term and ProTerm on each side.
>
>So far this isn't working though, and after having tried every bit of 
>tinkering I can think of, with a heavy heart I've concluded that I must 
>be doing something royally dumb.

A null-modem cable really would be much simpler to get going, but if you're
set on connecting the modems together, you need to blind-dial (ignore the
(lack of) dialtone and dial anyway) one modem and tell the other modem to
answer.

I don't know what kind of serial-port hardware the IIc+ uses, but if it uses
the same hardware (Z8530?) as the IIGS and Mac, you could get faster speeds
(38.4 kbps, or maybe even 57.6 kbps) through a null-modem cable than you'll
ever get through two modems tied together (33.6 kbps).

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