reeves-bill@CS.YALE.EDU (Bill Reeves) (02/24/91)
Hi. A friend just bought a small Tandy laptop word processor (a 200, I think, but maybe something as high as a 250 (?)), and he needs a way to transfer files to his ancient Mac 512K. We tried several public domain terminal emulator programs (Red Ryder 9.2, Term Emulator) and hooked the Tandy up to the Mac through the modem port, but we couldn't get the Mac to accept the characters the Tandy was sending. The people at Radio Shack have not been very helpful/knowledgeable - they say we need a program called Mac Terminal or something. So... Is what we are attempting possible? Do we need more software, or more hardware? (The Tandy has an RSC232 port (or whatever they're called), the Mac's modem port is the old 8- or 9-pin thing, and my friend went all over town getting cables to connect the two machines) Can anyone help? All responses will be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot! -- Bill Reeves, reeves-bill @ cs.yale.edu