[Duo2400] How to get files on/off this thing?

[Helen Ross]

My advice would be to use a duodock. If you have documents to transfer between PC and MAC I find that the most successful thing is to compress the files into an 
archive (I use zip) or else things can get a bit mangled.

Alternatively
I have successfully connected to a PC and a Psion with a program called Zterm1.0.1 at the Mac end and a standard terminal at the other end. To do this you need to 
make up a cable that will connect to the Mac serial port and the PC serial port. Have a search on the internet to look for the cable wiring. Look at this site 
http://www.geocities.com/lucanlord/  which is based on getting a Psion to talk to the mac but is fairly applicable for PC to Mac. 
I made up the required cable and although it is very slow for transfers it is possible.
Of course the first problem is how to get the terminal program on to the duo, but since you say you have a modem hopefully you can get on line to download it or else 
ask some friendly person with a older mac to transfer it using appletalk.

I was in your situation a while back when my duo harddrive corrupted and I had no way to get the OS back on to the machine. I bought a Duo Dock at this point!
Helen  


24/02/03 01:28:13, duolist at guardcolumn.mailshell.com wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I'm now the proud owner of a duo 280c, thanks to ebay.
> The thing does not have a floppy drive, cdrom, or any
>sort of dock.  It does have some sort of internal
>modem, but I don't know how to use that.  OS is 7.6.
>
>I would like to hook it up to my pc and load software
>onto it somehow.
>
>Does anybody have any experience connecting a
>powerbook 280c to a desktop pc?
>
>Any and all help is appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>-Tom
>
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