Re: Crazy SCSI Tricks

[Yua CaVan <Twerp@chop.isca.uiowa.edu>]

In note <1994Apr22.111420.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, misc176@csc.canterbury.ac.
nz (Philip Lamb, UoC-Chch-NZ) writes: 
>In article <2p1do5$gkk@lia.bga.com>, khym@bga.com (Khym Mahn) writes:
>> In article <1994Apr19.163916.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>,
>> Philip Lamb, UoC-Chch-NZ <misc176@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>>>Is their any software (or hardware) around to hook up a Mac and a II over 
SCSI
>>>? As I understand it the computer just appears as another device on the bus,
>>>so it should be okay.
>> 
>> I guess you want to have both computers access the same hard disk?
>> Someone else probably has all the details about doing this, but yes,
>> it's possible and also very dangerous.
>) [stuff deleted for brevity]
>>. Anyways, it's really not worth it...
>> if you want to share a hard disk, Localtalk the Mac and the II
>> together or something :-)
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>-- 
>No, I was thinking more along the lines of high speed file transfer directly
>between the two computers.
>
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I would also like to know if it were possible... could you post how to link up 
the two on localtalk, Dave?  ...or that high speed transfer... how about a 
null-modem?  That is fairly fast. :)