Re: Apple II Ethernet?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <6cvf6g$jp9$1@dove.qut.edu.au>,
Willie Yeo <yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au> wrote:
>	Very long time ago, the Apple II EtherNet card, made by Apple 
>Computers. It was discontinued shortly after... I think it was back in 
>1992/3.

   That card *was* made by Apple, and designed to be released
concurrently with 6.0.1 -- 6.0.1 betas which I've seen included
explicit support for it.  Unfortunately, Macintosh Inc didn't want
anything competing with their [perpetually] struggling cheap Mac line
and axed the card, requiring all support be yanked just before the
6.0.1 release. A few of these cards are off in private hands, but
there's no chance of any normal people getting to use it. 

   The ethernet card is just as real as the Mark Twain (sorta known as
the ROM 4) by Apple. That and many other canned projects along the way
are even more evidence of Apple's continuing resolve to strangle the
goose that laid the golden eggs for them, leading to a very messy
"death." It would have been better to spin off the Mac line as a
separate company to keep the internal politics off the Apple II, but
that'd be management acting rationally.

Nathan Mates
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