Re: Ethernet and II/IIGS

[Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com>]

>>>>> "ST" == Supertimer  <supertimer@aol.com> writes:

 ST> "Kid" <scraft@nothinbut.net> wrote:
 >> I frequent the www.ebay.com site, and there are many, many
 >> Asante EN/SC 10T adapters for sale there, most sell for
 >> less than $20.  This device connects to the 25-pin SCSI port
 >> on any Macintosh to give it connectivity to a 10-base-T
 >> network.
 >> 
 >> Other than drivers, I can't see why this kind of thing would
 >> not work on a II with a RAMFast SCSI card....  Even if
 >> an Apple ][ implementation was IIGS specific and had to
 >> make the network thruput slow to 500k/sec to not overflow
 >> the computer, it would be a great way to get a IIGS on
 >> the network.
 >> 
 >> Any ideas, folks?

I actually have one of these things for an old Mac Classic II.  They
do seem somewhat ideal (we can get SCSI, and these are already
available).

 ST> Negative for the RamFAST SCSI.  It lacks some SCSI implementation
 ST> that will prevent such a driver from being written.

Could you be more specific?

 ST> Yes, it would be possible with an Apple High Speed SCSI card if
 ST> someone wrote a driver.

Speaking of which, is there any programming information on the RamFAST
card?  That would be usefull in general.

cfs
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