Re: Commodore drives can be controlled on Apple II serial!

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On 4 Apr 1998 00:43:46 GMT, shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy
Shackelford) wrote:

|>Well I'd say it follows you hear about "pesky Macs", since they came from
|>the same company and all. If you can't handle it, sorry.

what makes you think i can't "handle it"?!?  i've already mentioned
that my distaste for the Mac is a personal thing, and that (given a
choice) i have more tolerance for a Mac user than a WinDOZE user.

|>The Fastpath router I have routes Appletalk out of the box, but if you want
|>to set up Appletalk zones or route TCP or DECnet or the other supported
|>protocols, ya gotta configure it. And that means using a Mac. Again, if you
|>can't handle that, sorry.

that's wonderful if you've got a router at home.  i'm thinking on the
small-scale: a HOME network.  i want to get things working on a
repeater if i can, because repeaters are (a) cheaper (b) not overkill.
for me to go out and get a router for linking two machines would be
like trying to buy a Lambourghini just to be able to drive it two
miles to the store.  (of course, that's a stupid thing to have where i
live.  the frost heaves in the late-fall to early spring would destroy
the car in no time...)

|>: show me an ethernet card that allows the //gs to do TCP/IP, and i'll
|>: show you an ecstatic computer geek...  :)
|>
|>I'd take ethertalk, but that's all I would need myself. I don't have a modem
|>on my IIgs any more since there aren't any TCP client apps or PPP for that
|>matter.

EtherTalk is a Mac thing, so far as i know...  if there was a 10Base-T
connector for the //gs, i'm SURE that somebody would have thought
about using it by now...

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William Smith
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