Re: IIe Workstation Card

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Phil Abel (TTSH35A@prodigy.com) wrote:
: Got my hands on a surplus IIe at an auction this summer, which, among 
: other things, had an Apple IIe workstation card on board (not bad for $7.
: 50 eh?).

That's pretty dad gum cool considering how scarce workstation cards are and
what people ask for them when they change hands.

: Question is, what kind of software do I need to get this thing running? 
: It's not a big issue, as I don't have a Mac yet to use as a slave server 
: to the thing, but the bank I work for is surplusing a few, so I hope to 
: get a Mac SE or Mac II pretty cheap... I also have my trusty GS to throw 
: into the Appletalk chain... I'm sure the software is by apple computer, 
: but haven't heard much about it. I checked my trusty golden orchard CDROM 
: and the exhaustive selection of apple system softs there didn't seem to 
: cover that (though admittedly I have probably only explored half the 
: directories on that thing!) Any ideas? Thanks...

When you buy a workstation card it comes with a disk with apps for logging on
and off a server and a chooser app which lets you choose a network printer
and download the IW emulator to a laserwriter if you have one. I've used my
//e with workstation card to print Appleworks files on my laserwriter using
the emulator, it's pretty cool.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool