Re: Appletalk on IIC

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <3365065f.0@news1.ibm.net>,  <wshek@ibm.net> wrote:
>>However you do need additional hardware - probably a box with a 65c02 and
>>a z8530 that would connect to the serial port of the //c and have an
>>Appletalk port - and no one has one of these to my knowledge.

>I'm not understanding why you need extra hardware, the mac doesn't use it?

   No, the Mac and GS have that built in. The serial controller chip
on the //c is incapable of dealing with Appletalk, and needs
(nonexistant) addon hardware to do the job.

   Same reason why a //e with Super Serial Card (or clone) or PC can't
do Appletalk right out of the box-- Apple used nonstandard serial
chips to pull off Appletalk in the first place. Their choice, and
while it may have been to get extra performance and ease of use, it's
an evolutionary dead end, replaced by ethernet, a much better choice
for stuff.

Nathan Mates


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