Re: Comms with apple //e & PC

[Jack Countryman <jcountry@hsonline.net>]

Typically, the printer port in a IIE is off an Apple Super Serial card
in slot 1, which was often installed before the unit was sold on later
IIEs (Platinum color).  If you have a working printer port on the IIE,
check inside the IIE case to see what card is in slot 1 providing the
printer port.  Or is the printer port paralell for ibm type printers?

If you have the standard setup with the super serial card in slot 1, and
you have the super serial card manual, then you can move the super
serial card to slot 2 where the modem program expects to find the modem
port, and reconfigure the card to act as a modem port.  

You could change it back to a printer configuration after you get the
transfer done.
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brattona@genrad.co.uk wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have an Apple //e with Apple Access // software. The manual for this
> software states it requires an Apple Super Serial Card, of which I do
> not have. But I have a modem card and modem for the Apple. Can this be
> used as the serial card for PC to Apple comms. The card has only a three
> core cable (transmit, receive and ground, I believe) and no additional
> setting options.
> 
> If not, what about using the printer port? Unidirectional only?
> 
> Any other suggestion?
> 
> TIA,
>     Alan