To upload files to my PC with Basilisk on it I had to have a null modem cable PC to Mac. I didn’t have any of the solutions I read on the 68kmla pages or elsewhere on the Net. So I had to make one myself. I had an old serial cable DB-9 female – DB25 male and a DB-25 to DB-9 male convertor. But the cable was a straight true serial one. So I grabbed a pair of scissors and cut the line in two. I soldered the two cables together on 5 points. The Macintosh 128K has a female DB-9 port. The hole on the top row on the left is 1 and the pin which goes in that whole I also call 1.

This is how to connect the wires:

Macintosh PC

3 5

5 2

6 8

8 5

9 3

So Macintosh side 3 and 8 are both connected to wire 5 on the PC side.

It worked without any problems. I connected my Macintosh to a Linux box and could use this one with a serial connection. So the cable was OK!

I connected the cable to my Windows PC and could transfer files to the Basilisk environment. First with Z Term later I switched to MacTerminal 2.2. I was able to transfer text files, but if I tried to exchange normal files in Xmodem mode, MacTerminal 2.2 (Italian version.....) bombed my Basilisk system.

So I switched to a program called Terminal and then I could transfer html files.

Now I can exchange html files to my virtual Mac and host them on my web server!

I have one open question. Does anyone has Claris Works with the MacTerminal functionality in it for System 7.6 that I’m running on Basilisk?