thanks for the link 128, yeah I've been doing a fair bit of reading on this subject and I've read that it can be done by connecting the plus to the PC via a null modem serial cable to each computer's serial ports. I've got an old null modem cable that I used to use between pc's so I've odered the Mac cable which goes from the din connector to the pc 25 pin connector, then I will use the null modem cable in between.

Getting a terminal program for the pc is easy enough, then if I run a terminal prog on the plus that can do file transfers I should be in business (I hope).