Apple ][c magic

[sdyoung@well.com (Steven Young)]

  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