Re: Appreciating my Apple IIs

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Bill Robbins" <mfumu@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
news:mfumu-4D4902.12563405082001@news.alphalink.com.au...
> In article <BOVa7.8605$K6.3534369@news2>,
>  "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:
>
> >It took me about a half hour to get my RamFAST SCSI card and
> >Hard Drive up and running. Yeah! I found an external HD case
> >the other day with a Conner 212 meg HD 4500 spin drive in
> >a NuDesign case.  The last piece was a easy jog to the local
> >computer store for a SCSI cable and all was well on my Apple
> >IIgs.  It now has seven partitions of about 30 meg each and it
> >boots into GS/OS with Appletalk installed.  Now to get the
> >Mac and Apple II to talk!
>
> If you get a hold of two AppleTalk connectors and a piece of telephone
> wire to attach the two, should be no dramas at all. I was surprised how
> easy it is.  You can control the Mac from the IIgs but not the other way
> around.

It was my understanding that if you just wanted to network two
computers using Appletalk, you could just use a serial cable
between the two computers.  I would think those localtalk
connectors would be hard to find since the Mac has abandoned
that architecture.

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