Re: LocalTalk-to-ethernet convertor?

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com> wrote:

: The FP4 is great.  I am using it to connect my Apple IIe and IIgs to
: my old Performa 6115CD.  Everyone who has a IIgs and a decent mac
: (read: any mac that can do ethernet) should try to hunt one down.

Yepper

: I use the Mac as a file server for the II's and will soon be able to
: share my ImageWriter II with all of my machines (PC, Macs, II's,
: etc.).

Me too, I have three localtalk printers, two Quadras and an SE/30 on ethernet,
and a IIgs and an extra drop for whatever box I have out on localtalk. The
Fastpath connects it all together really slick.

: Shiva, who bought Kinetics, who was recently bought by Intel still has
: software to configure the FP4 on their web site.  I suggest getting
: now before it might go away (mergers have a way of cleanning house).

The buyout chain goes Kinetics->Shiva->Dayna->Intel. I got hold of some old
Shiva ethernet cards and found out that Dayna supported 'em. Then came the
Intel buyout. That sucks because, in keeping with the competition intolerant
mindset of the Wintel world, Intel immediately discontinued all of Dayna's
Mac products and I'd expect support to vanish soon as well.
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