Re: The Network from Heck ver 4.0 its 4.0! was a typo!

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Like ships passing in the night....
Oh well, I missed you by less than a minute last night Bart - seems I was lagged a
minute and 10 seconds. I was setting up my stuffed //e (every slot is filled), and
when I drifted back by the the IBM PC 350, and sent messages, you signed off
before they got to you.

Roy

Bart wrote:

> Well actually...I have a 3270 card on one beast for direct IBM Mainframe comm,
> not hooked up because the IBM OS/360 would drain too much juice here in the
> North West, and besides, have you ever worked with old IBM BUS and TAG cables?
>  I DO have an old Compaq Proliant Novell server (EISA based tech) and used to
> run Netware 3.0 on it, but apps like SYSCON and RCONSOLE were too much like
> work!
>   I have run traditional Arpnet, and other early stuff (that is why I have but
> don't use a TOPS Net setup), but again:   I am a network hobbyest, not
> masochist ;)
>
> I forgot to mention on my page: I have a Apple Laserwriter IIg I built from 3
> seperate printers (2 Apple, and an HP) on the Ethertalk side witha 40 meg
> drive on its SCSI port for extra fonts, plus a Imagewriter II on one of the
> Localtalk runs also networked in.  I can get to either from bot the PC side
> and the Apple Side (and the Laserwriter is the ONLY one I can get to from
> BeOS!).
>
> I played with Windows NT 3.1 briefly, but it was limiting.
> My  interest is in getting any beast from S100 BUS to a modern Athelon to chat
> and at the least pass files.
>
> But, my main love is the Apple II.  A read of here over the last year or 3
> will show there are actually MANY Apple II network solutions (Digicard,
> Appletalk, LANceGS, original Apple Ethernet cards:somebody has those out
> there!, and others.
>
> Apple II is cool, and a network geek's dream
>
> -Bart