Re: Connecting an Apple IIe via RS-232?

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Brian Kendig <brian-usenet2@enchanter.net> wrote in message
news:cEED7.2846$Le.69668@sea-read.news.verio.net...
> I want to get some FredWriter files off an old Apple IIe onto something
more
> modern.  I've got a Mac IIcx with an RS-232 serial cable and a terminal
> program ready to receive the files over a null modem connection; now I've
> just got to figure out how to get the IIe to connect to this.
>
> I really don't know as much about the Apple II's as I want to (but I'm
> learning!).  There's a 25-pin connector on the back of the IIe, but it
> doesn't connect to anything inside.  What does this usually plug into?  Is
> there a card I'm missing?
>

You'd need a serial card (sounds like someone removed it) and a com program
on the IIe to do this transfer, in addition to the proper cable. If you had
a IIgs, which can read 5.25" and 3.5" disks, you could copy to 800K 3.5"
which your IIcx could read.  The details and a lot more are covered in the
faq:

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs1START.html

Have fun!
-Paul