Re: What is a Workstation card?

[Karl Asha <karl@blackdown.com>]

Any idea who still sells AppleSHare 2.x or 3.x? I want to purchase it so I 
can at least work on getting a IIgs or a IIe to netboot via netatalk. 

Cheers, 
Karl


dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
> Obsbedia2 <obsbedia2@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, 
> >       I have an Apple Personal LaserWriter  LS that I'd like to hook up to the //e.
> > The manual that I have for  the Apple Personal Laser Writer NT tells that it
> > can be connected to an Apple //e, but first install the apple II Workstation
> > card.  I take it that it's not the same thing as a SCSI or SuperSerial card?
> 
> No.  It is a card made by Apple that provides an AppleTalk (LocalTalk)
> interface for an enhanced Apple IIe.  The card provides two Mini-Din-8
> serial connectors (via a connector box that clamps into the back panel
> of the IIe and has a cable running to the card).  One can be used for
> LocalTalk, the other only supports a standard serial printer (e.g.
> ImageWriter). 
> 
> The card has its own microcomputer - a 65C02, with its own RAM and ROM.
> This processor implements the AppleTalk protocols, and exchanges data as
> required with the Apple II's processor.
> 
> The software supplied with the card is sufficient to allow the IIe to
> use an AppleTalk ImageWriter II, ImageWriter LQ or LaserWriter.  (With
> most software, it is necessary to download an ImageWriter emulator to a
> LaserWriter; this may not work with recent models.)
> 
> It also allows the IIe to use a networked Macintosh as a file server.
> (The Mac must be running the AppleShare server, or have File Sharing
> turned on.)  If the Mac is running AppleShare 2.0 or 3.0, the IIe can
> even be booted over the network, and doesn't need a disk drive at all.
> 
> -- 
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz
> Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand