Re: Ethernet and II/IIGS

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

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 thought the prevailing theory was that since RAMfasts don't have their
own SCSI ID, such a device could never work. HS SCSIs have their own ID on 
the other hand.

I use a Fastpath router to get from localtalk to ethernet so it's a non
issue for me.
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