Re: Localtalk card questions.

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Ernest wrote:

> I just won an auction on a Localtalk card for my Apple IIe, and now I'm
> anxious to get it set up. I should first say that I am unfamiliar with how
> to set this card up, or exactly what it's capable of but here is what I
> would like to do.
>
> Plug the Localtalk card into my Apple IIe, and connect it to a Mac LC
> computer. Then, I would like to use the LC to download (via FTP) non-dsk
> disk files from the internet to my Apple IIe, or convert the Apple II files
> to disks directly on the LC to use on the IIe.
>
> If what I've heard is correct, the LC has a built in Localtalk port but I'll
> have to find the right LT cable to string them together.

If it's just the IIe and the Mac a printer cable will do the trick but if you
wish to hook up more than two then you'll need the AppleTalk connectors

In my setup I'm using a Color Classic as a servor. It's connected to a IIgs
and a IIe with a workstation card via AppleTalk connectors and another
Mac via Ethernet. All 3 of these other computers can read and write to the
Color Classics hard drive so it's easy to transfer files back and forth

> As you can imagine, I have a lot of questions about how to get this all set
> up.
>
> 1. What is the difference between Localtalk and Appletalk?
> 2. Can anyone tell me where I can find the Apple IIe software for this card?

I believe I saw that on Apples Website. If you can't find it email me and I'll
dig out my Workstation card floppy.

> 3. Is there software for the LC that can convert .shk files to disk?

I've never heard of any

> 4. Will an LC support a 5.25 apple disk drive?

I don't believe it does

>  I also have a IIe card the LC, with the Y-cable and 5.25 unidisk drive -can
> this help in my plan? I haven't set it up yet but does this card simply run
> like a separate IIe on the LC, or can the IIe card access the Hard drive of
> the LC, to pull .shk files from the HD?

It could help. I have a IIe card that I was using in my Color Classic. I had a
ProDOS partition on the Macs hard drive that the IIe card booted off of.
As I recall I was never able to access the HFS portion of the Macs HD with
the IIe card. However the Mac could access the ProDOS partition and transfer
files there which were available to the IIe card when it was booted.

    Wayne