Re: Router for IIgs->Ethernet

[btomlin@NOSPAM.texas.net (Bruce Tomlin)]

In article 
<Pine.SGI.3.91r.990709105337.3101290A-100000-100000-100000-100000@tcfreenet.org>, 
Michael A Cumings-steen <cumingsm@tcfreenet.org> wrote:

> I'm moving into my new college apartment, which has an ethernet feed, but 
> not much space.  I'd like to move just one computer (my IIgs), & put the 
> others into storage.
> 
> I'm looking for a router to bridge the gap on the secondary market.  
> Could anyone tell me which ones to look for/which ones to avoid?

Well, first you would have to have some way to get TCP/IP out of the IIgs 
that COULD be routed to the Ethernet.  There is now a TCP/IP package for 
the IIgs, but I think it only supports a serial port hookup.  You could 
probably get it to work with a PC running Linux, though.

If you could get a IIgs to do MacIP, you would still have to get a 
router.  Apple made one in software which should run on any Mac with 
old-style Appletalk.  There were a few hardware router boxes which could 
do it, but back in the day, only a few universities and companies with 
budgets would have used anything with MacIP, so they should be pretty 
rare.


The next best solution is to run a Mac with Open Transport, setting TCP/IP 
to Ethernet, and Appletalk to the printer port.  Then you could use file 
sharing to copy stuff to the IIgs after downloading it.


It's a shame Apple never came through on the IIgs Ethernet card.