Re: Communicating with an Apple IIe

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>]

Your options are to obtain a serial card or to obtain and 3.5" drive and
interface, as the Mac can do ProDOS disks. The serial card is a lot cheaper
but requires more fiddling to get it to work.

TomZ

Glenn Reed <g.reed@clear.net.nz> wrote in article
<34172dba.1531254@news.clear.net.nz>...
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to those people who replied to my earlier post on RS232 apple
> IIe connections.  Now seeing that this is not possible unless the
> Apple IIe has an add on serial card and the existing 9pin plug is a
> joystick port rather than a serial port, then what is the best way to
> transfer files to an apple IIe?
> 
> If I have access to a macintosh (before the PowerMac version) is there
> a straightforward way to copy to an Apple IIe diskette.  Will the
> apple IIe disk drives interface to a macintosh?
> 
> I might have a look and see what those other cards were that came with
> these computers.  My boss called them network cards but maybe it's
> possible that they are serial.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Regards
> Glenn.
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