To transfer a file from your PC to your Apple II computer.  First, download the
file you would like to transfer.

Next, you'll need to have some means of transferring the files from the PC to
the Apple IIGS.

The most common method of transferring the files is to use a modem (attached to
each machine - one on your IBM PC, and the other on your Apple IIGS) and
telecommunications software (on each machine) to transmit files back and forth.

If you don't have a modem, another alternative is to connect your two machines
together using the serial cable (the one you would connect to a modem) on your
PC and a serial cable on your Apple IIGS, connected together with a null-modem
adapter.  (A null-modem adapter can be purchased at an electronics store like
Radio Shack).  Using the serial cables and a null-modem adapter, you'd still
need to have telecommunications software on each machine in order to transmit
and receive the files.  If you've never had a modem for your Apple II machine,
you probably don't have telecommunication software for it so you will need to
get some kind of software.  Telecommunication software can be ordered from
various Apple II software dealers who still market their products on the World
Wide Web.  Or....

If you have access to one of the newer model Macintosh machines, then there are
other ways of copying the files (since a Macintosh running under System Software
7.0 or later, using an extension called PC Exchange, can read and write to
MS-DOS formatted disks, and it can also read and write to Apple II ProDOS
formatted disks).  See the "Mac to Apple II Transfers" collection here in this
forum.

Or, if you want a complete package that will do the conversion from machine to
machine for you, there's a product on the market called "Crossworks", made by a
company called SoftSpoken, and it comes complete with a cable to connect between
your IBM PC and Apple II computer so that you can transfer the files, and it
even has software for converting AppleWorks files with MS-DOS programs like
Microsoft Works, Word Perfect, Lotus 123, and dBase.  (This program costs about
$70, and is available from it distributors).