Re: My New (Mac) Apple IIe

[Chuckles <Me@here.com>]

> Is anyone else here using an old Mac with a //e card?  I'm going to
> have to brush up on how I can get the Mac to talk to my windows machine
> - right now I've got it set up downstairs next to my wireless XP
> laptop.

I'm using a Color Classic with the IIe card, with both a 5.25" drive and 
the (much harder to find) 3.5" Unidisk drive attached.  I actually acquired 
the Color Classic on eBay to serve as a bridge for transferring data on 
floppies from the PC to a IIGS that I picked up on eBay, and went hunting 
for the IIe card and drives later just for the geek appeal of it all.

Transferring files between the Mac and the PC via floppy is really pretty 
easy to do, since the Mac can read and write 720K MS-DOS formatted floppies  
thanks to PC Exchange.  The more elegant way to transfer files would 
obviously be via a serial cable connection, but I personally prefer 
floppies since the volume of transfers I do is low.  With a bit of patience 
and a few floppies, I can move files back and forth between the PC, the 
Color Classic, the IIGS, a IIe and a couple of Amigas without too much 
trouble.