Hrm, thought I talked about that...
If you don't have Hardware Handshake (HSK) then the speed will drop very noticably. I could pull up the E500 again and run a speed test of 57600bps with no HSK -- I bet it gets chopped to like 9600bps or worse.
1.) Is your cable wired the same way I have drawn the diagram?
2.) You don't need ZTerm on OS X to make it work. minicom and HyperTerminal work fine.
3.) For the .sit hassle, just use an emulator or a newer Mac with something like Stuffit Expander 14. Use the emulator to repack the contents into a CompactPro archive. (I'm a big fan of CompactPro. Too bad I can't register it.) Then use BinHex 4.0 to binhex it. Shuffle it over the network with ASCII encoding (not binary), then fire up Finder Info 1.1.1 and change the type to TEXT and the creator to BNHQ. Decode it, pass it through CompactPro and rejoice greatly.
4.) AFP bridge with Netatalk 2.1.6 under a Linux VM. Twice as fast as 115200bps, which you won't get on a Plus, I heard 19200 was about the most you could get (I used 38400 on the LCII, 57600 was the max and had too many errors).
5.) Use Pseudo-PPP dialup.
If you don't have Hardware Handshake (HSK) then the speed will drop very noticably. I could pull up the E500 again and run a speed test of 57600bps with no HSK -- I bet it gets chopped to like 9600bps or worse.
1.) Is your cable wired the same way I have drawn the diagram?
2.) You don't need ZTerm on OS X to make it work. minicom and HyperTerminal work fine.
3.) For the .sit hassle, just use an emulator or a newer Mac with something like Stuffit Expander 14. Use the emulator to repack the contents into a CompactPro archive. (I'm a big fan of CompactPro. Too bad I can't register it.) Then use BinHex 4.0 to binhex it. Shuffle it over the network with ASCII encoding (not binary), then fire up Finder Info 1.1.1 and change the type to TEXT and the creator to BNHQ. Decode it, pass it through CompactPro and rejoice greatly.
4.) AFP bridge with Netatalk 2.1.6 under a Linux VM. Twice as fast as 115200bps, which you won't get on a Plus, I heard 19200 was about the most you could get (I used 38400 on the LCII, 57600 was the max and had too many errors).
5.) Use Pseudo-PPP dialup.
That is why I wrote the Guide. I had the same issues you had and decided to chronicle the experience. Telnet isn't something I had bothered with since I was mainly interested in just how to shuffle the stuff around, no questions asked. But yes Telnet isn't something I wrote about and I didn't elaborate on it -- and yes, "rig up your cable, login with your telnet client and you're done" which makes me go "HUH?" as nobody even tells you basic telnet commands (like we were all born in 1960 and grew up speaking unix commands and telneted every day).