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Re: Apple ///?

Edhel Iaur, Esq. wrote:
 
> >On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:30:58 -0600, Marvin Jason Gallop
> ><mgallop@ebicom.net> wrote:
> 
> >>P.S.  How can I network my iie to my pc?


> Expensive way:
> Get Appletalk cards for the PC & //e--good luck on finding those PC
> Appletalk cards, tho.
> 
> On second thought, I think you'd be missing a server here...


Not any more <g>.  I am completing a set of enhancements to the (free)
U-Mich netatalk package.  This is an Appletalk server application which
runs on almost any modern Unix system.  I am currently using Linux
2.0.29 with Brad Johnson's LocalTalk PC driver.  The driver supports the
original Apple LocalTalk PC card and its immediate Farallon-labeled
successors (onboard 65C02).

Currently, I am able to mount volumes from a IIe with a Workstation
card.  Since Linux can directly r/w MS-DOS partitions, this is a neat
way to move files back and forth at speeds far greater than RS232!  The
IIgs built-in ports are proving more stubborn.  There is some kind of
timing problem which causes it not to work with the Linux box, though it
can talk with a Mac SE on the same network.

Great minds are at work on this as I write...  When this is ready for
prime-time, I intend to release the patches to the netatalk maintainers.

Stay tuned.

Steve