Re: Apple // networking?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

The //e needs a Super Serial card for communications.
The //c and //gs both had built in ports for serial communication.

In regards to the Mac IIci, you should be able to read
a prodos disk on the Mac.  A null modem cable would
have to have a mini 8 on one end for the Mac and a
standard serial connector on the other for the //c.  I used
a similar setup to connect my Windows machine to my
//e.  The //e has an advantage in that the serial port can
be set to either modem or terminal mode.  In terminal
mode, it automatically will reverse the signals to make
an internal null modem.  No need for a special cable other
than a stock serial cable.
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"Paul Bramscher" <brams006@tc.umn.edu> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to get a null modem cable from the apple //c to the Mac
iici?  I'd
> rather not have the "legacy" computers physically near my linux server for
> aesthetic/space reasons.
>
> Also, I've got two Apple //e's.  Is that a whole different ballgame?  What
kind of
> communications card can you plop into them?
>
>  It's kind of a historical challenge to get different OS's talking to each
other.  At
> work, I'll download things from the internet onto an NT machine, bring
them home on a
> ZIP disk and load them onto my Win98 box.  From there I can ftp them
locally over to
> my Linux, Mac iici or Performa machines.  Might as well toss in ProDOS
somehow if
> it's possible.....  Maybe I should just forget the //c and //e and pick up
a cheap
> //gs somewhere?
>
> Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
>