Re: Network with a Mac

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <68upv1$o8m$1@post.servtech.com>,
Mark Piazza <piazza@servtech.com> wrote:
>Connect a IIgs (without a hard disk) to a Mac and boot from it!
>BUT... It tells me to refer to a manual that I do not have to set it up...

   Appleshare 2.x or 3.x for macs is required to pull this off. As
that was commercial software (costing $1K a pop), and now replaced by
newer versions that can't be bothered to support Apple IIs, good luck
finding it. And only those who can't be bothered to bother doing
anything more than minor work would think that Appleshare is "fast"
enough to do real work over. 

   Get a real HD for the GS and really support it. Focus drives are
$59 from Alltech Electronics, which is way faster and almost certainly
cheaper than using a mac as an expensive paperweight with a HD.

>How easy is it to connect a GS and a MAC+ with only a straight through cable
>to do file sharing.

   With a printer cable, such as for an IWII, that'll work for only 2
devices once the appropriate software is installed on both ends. More
than that, better shell out for phonenet cabling. ['Real' appletalk
cabling is 3 wires, not the 8pin jacks in the back of the computer,
but Apple (surprise) charged thru the nose for that, and couldn't lock
down the market enough to prevent cloners from doing a better job, as
usual.]

>And allow me to boot from the Mac?

   The cabling has nothing to do with net booting. That's a software
issue thanks to Apple trying to charge schools $$$ to make Apple IIs
more usable. And no courage to admit it after the fact that they
strangled the goose that laid the golden eggs for them and be nice to
those still using it.

Nathan Mates

--
<*> Nathan Mates http://www.visi.com/~nathan/      <*>
# This posting is copyright Nathan Mates, and may not be reprinted
# in full, partial, or quoted form on any archive site associated with
# Charles Turley.