Hello, everyone! I'm a "switcher" - I started using my first Mac about 3 years ago, and fell in love with it.
Back when I started using computers, I was drawn into getting an a Commodore Vic-20 (and a VicModem), and then an Atari 800XL. And then a very long line of computers until I landed here. Recently, an elderly lady in my neighborhood was clearing out her garage, and came across a Mac SE that had belonged to her husband. She was going to throw it out, but saved it for me. I consider this a lucky find, and being a new Mac convert, this was a way for me to experience some of the Macintosh legacy firsthand. If you spot any assumptions I made that are faulty, please let me know. I was very fortunate - the machine had two floppy drives, had been upgraded to 4 megabytes of RAM, and had an external harddrive (that I can't find the size of - the enclosure is marked "Mac Bottom", but that doesn't mean anything to me). The machine also has a "Thunderworks Port Adapter" - I know this only because I saw a Mac SE on ebay with the same plug, that plugs into one of the SCSI ports on the back of the SE. It has a passthrough SCSI plug, and a 9 pin serial adapter (I am assuming and hoping that is what that is). The machine was hardly used - it had OS 6.0.9 on it, Aldus Pagemaker, and Microsoft Word. I think it has Adobe Typemanager on it as well, but that's just a guess. But no other software. Now, there's a lot of shareware software out there that runs on these older machines, but this is where a common problem comes in. How to transfer software from my Mac or my Windows box to the Mac SE? I searched all over the web and the answer was the same - you can't do it, unless you have a FDHD drive on the Mac. Or, you have to use a null modem cable. Well, I've used a null modem cable many times before for transferring software on my old Ataris. This shouldn't be any different, right? Well, the first thing I had to do was find my null modem cable. It had been some years since I used it, and it came up missing. So, I ordered a new one, and a new serial cable. So here's the question of the day: Given that, from what I can tell, there's no software on this machine besides the operating system and a few word processing programs, is there any software that comes with the OS that will help me to transfer files from my Windows machine to the Macintosh? If not, is there anyone on this list that I could persuade to send me an 800K-formatted floppy with a terminal program that has Zmodem (or some similar file transfer program?)? Or, failing that, how difficult is it to hook up a SCSI CD-ROM? And can anyone point me at one that would be compatible? Any help would be greatly appreciated. David Jackson -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
