Re: Apple II rescue... seriously OT (but back on topic)

[Dennis Jenkins <djenkins@usb.com>]

"Christopher D. Heer" wrote:
> 
> Dennis Jenkins <djenkins@usb.com> wrote in message
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> > Nor have I ever heard of a Netware
> > server serving files via Appletalk, NFS, AFS, SMB or any other non
> > Novell network filesystem.
> 
> Netware for Macintosh has been around a long time.  It allows you to share
> Netware volumes as AFP volumes via AppleTalk.  You can even get a LocalTalk
> card for your server, if you're that sort of perverse.  :)  It might be
> included with Netware; back in the day I ran a Netware 3.X shop with oodles
> of Macs, and you had to buy it as an option then.

I stand corrected. :)

> 
> B) Put one of those LanceGS (or whatever they are) ethernet
>    cards in your IIgs.  Do those run Appletalk?  Never
>    used one myself.

Nope, Apple's support for AppleTalk on the IIgs is hard-wired to the
Localtalk port.  Maybe we can change that someday if we can convince
Apple to open source GS/OS.

> Personally, I hope there's a //e workstation card in all this stuff I got at
> the rescue; I would *love* to network a //e.

	Good luck!  I wish that everyone who went got what they are after.  I
picked up a 'Liron' card, and I hope to install it tonight.  I will now
try to drive 4 3.5" drives, 2 5.25" drives and 2 40M SCSI drives from my
IIgs.  We'll see!

	If I would have been thinking when I was there I would have taken many
more of the IO cards.  At the time it seemed like they were almost all
Grappler cards (how are these different from a regular parallel io card
anyway?), SSC and disk II cards.  I probably passed up a second sight
card or another SCSI card...

	Two days ago I re-examined my new collection to see what else I had
grabbed.  I also picked up 2 white 3.5" drives (not platinum).  They
were almost mint.  I later learned that these are the fabled "uni disk
drives" that can plug into the IIc!

	I plan to put up a small web page on my personal web site about my
finds.  It would be cool to see a full list of what others found.  Maybe
we could have a comprehensive list of everything "rescued".  Wow, I
still can't get over the amount of stuff at that house....  And I was
told by the lady there that I was not the first to arrive.

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