Re: (newbie) AppleIIc-->Mac

["Lazarus I. Long" <lazarus.long@adobe.com>]

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<SMALLER><SMALLER><FIXED>On Sun, Mar 16, 1997 6:42 PM,
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<SMALLER><SMALLER><FIXED> wrote: 

</FIXED></SMALLER></SMALLER><SMALLER><SMALLER><FIXED>>In article
<<5gcig2$i14@eve.enteract.com>,

> Michael E. Rubin (zooropa@enteract.com) wrote:

>

>: In my family, we have two computers - an aging Apple IIc and a

>: PowerComputing PowerBase 180 Mac clone.  My father had been using
the IIc

>: for years to do his spreadsheets and databases, but is finally
starting to

>: use ClarisWorks' equivelants.

>

>: Basically, we're in a quandry.  We have years of Apple IIc 5.25"
floppies

>: with Appleworks documents (all sorts - spreadsheets, word processor
docs,

>: databases) and would like to be able to save them by exporting them
to the

>: Mac.  I know ClarisWorks has the XTND translators to convert the
AppleWorks

>: documents fine, so I just need to get them onto the Mac somehow.

>

>: That's my question -- HOW?  I've read through some of the FAQs but
didn't

>: find anything on transferring information from an Apple IIc 5.25"
floppy to

>: a Mac hard drive.  The null-modem solution sounded interesting, but
how

>: would I get access to the information on the disks?  We don't have
a second

>

>I think you're confused about this option.  This means that you
connect the

>Mac and the IIc with a cable (via the modem ports) and establish a
signal,

>then transfer the material with a communications program protocol
(e.g.

>Zmodem).

>

>: disk drive or access to a 3.5" drive for the IIc, unfortunately. 
If someone

>: could lend me theirs and instruct me how to go about doing the
transferring,

>: I'd be willing to compensate in return.  I just have to get at
those files

>: on the disks.

>

>This option is commonly known as "SneakerNet", since you're
transferring

>disks by foot.  This is not what is meant by "null modem".

>

>You will need communication programs for both the IIc and the Mac. 
You

>can probably get a disk with a communication program from your local
II

>usergroup.  Call 1-800-SOS-APPL to get information on a local
usergroup.

>

>On the Mac side, you will need an old-style communications program;
that

>is, one which does not use TCP/IP (a good shareware program is
ZTerm).

>You can get ZTerm on the Washington University archive:

>     http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/mac/info-mac/comm/

>


I'd say, if you can afford it, go and get the 3.5" drive for your

//c.  Just post in marketplace and someone is sure to sell it to you

for $35-60.  Totally worth it.  Lets you transfer ProDOS files simple

and easy, and lets you create DOS 3.3 and other types of disk images

for use in emulators.  No cable-and-terminal mucking.  Simple drag and

drop (or select and go in Copy ][+).


If you don't have too many floppies (like less than 10) i'll volunteer

to do it for you, just send me yer disks (back 'em up first) and i'll

email you the files, or optionally send you a Mac floppy with your

files on it (you pay postage).  Ok?


good luck!


-laz</FIXED></SMALLER></SMALLER><SMALLER><SMALLER><FIXED>


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