Re: Apple ][c magic

[legacy@ieighty.net (Legacy I.)]

In article <5p1rce$7ck$4@was.hooked.net> sdyoung@well.com (Steven Young) writes:
>From: sdyoung@well.com (Steven Young)
>Subject: Apple ][c magic
>Date: 28 Jun 1997 02:02:54 GMT

>  Greetings!

>  I have recently aquired an Apple][c + monitor for $25 or $20 or some 
>figure beginning with a 2 and ending with a number between 0 and 9.  But 
>anyway, it was dirt cheap, considering the fact that the Zenith monitor 
>is fairly nice and works with my C64.

>  But that's not what I'm posting about.  Here's the deal, the ][c came 
>with little more than some copies of an ancient version of Prodos that 
>took about 20 minutes to bring out of ancient Hebrew mode and King's 
>Quest, which is actually kind of fun if you gloss over the fact that it 
>looks a lot like something you'd expect from an 11 year old learning 
>graphics under QBasic.

>  So then, accounting for the fact that this machine is more or less 
>useless to me in it's current state (although my BASIC Prime Number 
>Generator never ceases to amaze people with the scope of it's uselessness 
>and the prowess at which it acheives this), I'm wondering if anyone can 
>come up with zooty ideas as to how to put, say, a terminal on this thing, 
>so I can download more stuff to it.

>  I have, in my arsenal, what looks like a perilously home-made 
>Apple][c->rs232+25pin serial cable, although it does bear the Apple 
>logo.  But I'm not sure it works, because using my samurai-like skills, I 
>told the Apple to emit all sorts of amusing characters over the serial 
>port, and the other end received nothing.  As I said, it _does_ bear the 
>Apple logo.

>  So, anyway, what I'm asking is, in a nutshell, to summarize, does 
>anyone have any ideas on how to suck data from my illustrious PC to my 
>Apple][c with a minimum of pain and blood loss, taking in to account that 
>I may or may not have a working serial cable, which I'm quickly beginning 
>to regret mentioning in the first place.

>  dreamer

I really don't know.  You might need a Null-modem conv., or maybe the apple 
needs to be told that it should be using said port as a comm port.  Apple are 
funny that way.