Is the NADS box still being sold? I sent an enquiry to club100 a while back but never heard back.
-Mike On Wednesday, 25 November 2015, Rob Scrimgeour <aciph...@live.ca> wrote: > The absolute easiest way is with a NADS box. > http://www.club100.org/catalog.html > > Rob S > Victoria, BC > Canada > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Graf <j...@grafs.us <javascript:;>> > Sender: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com <javascript:;>> > Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:05:46 > To: Model 100 Discussion<m100@lists.bitchin100.com <javascript:;>> > Reply-To: Model 100 Discussion <m100@lists.bitchin100.com <javascript:;>> > Subject: Re: [M100] Question > > It would be fun to know the modern answer, too. I've tried various cable > converters from serial to USB, without much luck. The last time I made it > work flawlessly was with my Mac SE, using the original Mac pin printer > cable (which was a null modem cable) back in my newspaper days. The Mac > side used Mock Terminal, which we also used to operate our modems. > > My most recent attempt, some years ago, also successful, was with a serial > to USB cable and some version of Z-Term, but on a Mac OS 9 system. Never > could make it work with my OS X machines. Using a Terminal emulator on OS X > I believe is different than the Terminal software resident on the new Macs. > If it can be used as a Comm terminal, I never understood how. > > Truth be known, while it is fun to use the M100, I've gotten to like my > MacBook Pro, on which I run my entire media business, and do all my > writing. I even use my old iPad 2 for things like answering this email, > though the "screen" keyboard it isn't much good beyond the alphabet. Too > many hoops to jump through just to get numbers and other characters. > > The best solution appears to be those developed by several on this list, > like the NADS box, and a couple of other solutions, which escape my memory. > If you haven't already, check out Club100.org. > - - - - - - - - - - > John Graf > > > On Nov 24, 2015, at 9:46 PM, benjamin.vanderf...@gmail.com > <javascript:;> wrote: > > I was wondering what is the easiest possible way for someone with very > little technical knowledge to export text files from a trs 80 model 100 to > a Mac OS X laptop? Any help would be appreciated, thanks! >