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ExtraPutty

I’ve been looking for a free telnet program for Windows, that had the ability to upload and download files using Xmodem, Ymodem or Zmodem.  I wanted this in order to move files from my Windows PC to my Apple //c.

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Podcasts

I spent some time,  listening to  the first two podcasts of Open Apple, while moving the links for podcasts to their own pages. During the second episode they mention several emulators including one I had never heard of called “II in

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Macintosh Connectivity, Network First Steps, Continued

I copied the Network Software Installer file that I downloaded from the MacSE to the ZIP disk for the MacPlus. After booting the MacPlus I double clicked in the NSI file to unwrap it.  When that was done I double

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Macintosh Connectivity, Network First Steps

I did some more reading on the internet today and found some notes here and there that said networking on the 68K Macintoshes could be accomplished between two Macintoshes by the simple expedient of connecting them with a printer cable

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Macintosh Connectivity, Another Step

I managed to connect my Macintosh SE to one of my PCs today. The PC is running Ubuntu 13.10 and I used a cable from MacLink, which I believe is a null modem cable.  I have purchased a couple of

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Macintosh Connectivity

I’ve been looking for ways to move files from the internet to my vintage Macs. I can do it by downloading the files to my PC, copying them to a ZIP disk and then copying them off the ZIP disk.

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Z-Machine Interpreter?

The file I thought was a Z-Machine Interpreter turned out to be a program to make it possible to move Infocom games onto a Prodos disk.  I’ve moved on to the interactive fiction archive, which is where I found this file.

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New User Kit, Part 3

I spent quite a bit of time looking for and working with .shk files today.  In the process, I made some notes and added a page to my New User Kit.  I called it Extracting .shk Disk Images on Windows.

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New User Kit

The other day when I was rebuilding my working disk, I had trouble finding original disks to do it with. Yesterday, I had some time, so I set up one of my Macs to try out the printer.  Turns out I

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USB Serial Port

I forgot all about testing the USB serial port yesterday, until late in the day. Today, I spent a little bit of time testing it.  I tried it on the Linux laptop first and what I thought was the new

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