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Re: Ethernet and II/IIGS



"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?

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

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