Re: Okay, now how do I get them talking?

["Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com>]

Hello.  Is a USB to serial port adapter and a null modem cable a
possibility?

Hope this helps,
Jason Whorton



"Dave Althoff Jr" <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote in message
news:arg52a$er3$1@acme.gcfn.org...
>
> In one corner:
> A shiny new 2002 Macintosh dual-1GHz G4 running MacOS 10.2.
>
> In the other corner:
> A somewhat battered 1987 ROM-00 upgraded to ROM 01 Apple IIgs single-3MHz
> 65C816 running GS/OS 6.0.1
>
> The IIgs has a couple of serial ports, either of which could be used for
> LocalTalk; a SCSI hard drive, a 3.5" drive, a 5.25" drive, and a SCSI Zip
100.
>
> The G4 has an Ethernet port, a couple of FireWire ports, a couple of USB
> ports, a DVD-RW drive.
>
> I'd like to be able to move data between these machines, but it seems that
> they have absolutely nothing in common anymore.  And to add insult to
> injury, Apple has decided not to support LocalTalk in OS-X, probably
> because they haven't built a machine with a serial port in something like
> three years.
>
> Setting aside for the moment the fact that I need a serial port to talk to
> my hand-held (hey, if I can get the G4 and the GS talking to one another I
> can let the hand-held talk to the GS and go from there...) I wonder if
> there are any tricks I am missing.  Do I need a LanceGS...will that do me
> any good trying to talk to the G4?  Do I have to abandon thoughts of
> Localtalk and slum it with FTP?
>
> And on the Mac side, does anybody know how I can remap this idiotic
> keyboard so that the CONTROL and CAPS LOCK keys are in the right place?
> If I can do it in Windows at work, I ought to be able to do it in MacOS at
> home!  (I'd rather just hook up a IIgs keyboard, but...er...there's no ADB
> port either...)
>
> --Dave Althoff, ][.
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