Re: What do YOU want?!!

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <14FEB199422085174@jetson.uh.edu>,
Fretz, David <st3b1@jetson.uh.edu> wrote:
>In article <CL88F2.3CC@crash.cts.com>, shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford) writes...

>>At today's prices, it would be much easier and probably cheaper to buy an old 
>>Mac Plus to run as a server for your II's. All you need to do everything short
>>of booting your II's over the network is built in to the Mac system software.
>>Even the Mac-hater crowd out there could go along with such a cheap and easy 
>>solution.

>	Except for the fact that Appleshare is over $900 dollars on top of
>getting that Mac.  I myself have a PC with local talk card and gs connected to
>a network Imagewriter.  Would be great if the GS were a networking server 
>since most of the hard drive capacity is on it.  Unfortunately hard drive
>prices have come down. 

I have three IIgses, a //e, an IWII, and a Laserwriter NTR all networked
together, in addition to a Quadra 700. I also have Appleshare 3.0. As I was
saying, when you're talking about a handful of machines networked with one
user on the network, as is my situation, the only thing you get from Appleshare
that you don't get from System 7 file sharing is the ability to boot your II's
from the server. If you can live without that, you don't need Appleshare. I got
Appleshare from a liquidation sale for $400 and got a free updater from Apple
via FTP to get to the current version, 3.0.3, by the way.

I got Appleshare with the intention of doing this very thing, getting a cheap
older Mac to run as a server.

"Unfortunately hard drive prices have come down"? What's that supposed to mean?
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