Re: AppleTalk - Help!

[cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <1993Dec26.182427.3411@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>,
Soenke Behrens <behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> wrote:
>rheinze@lrc.edu wrote:
>: Can anyone help me with AppleTalk?
>: I want to link my son's Mac and my IIgs.  I bought what is called a
>: Appletalk cable.  But the pin configuration does not allow it to
>: be used the the serial port.   What do I need to do the
>: AppleTalk link?   Is there more hardware?
>
>Yes, certainly. What you got would be on e of those RJ-11 (Western, tele-
>phone-plug style) cables. You need ATalk boxes for each device you connect.
>You can get pretty cheap ones from 3rd party vendors. See a recent GS+ for
>an excellent article on ATalk.
>
>Hope it helps
>
>Soenke
>
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Soenke,
	I think what you are describing is called a PhoneNet connector,
or one of it's third-party clones. PhoneNet connectors use standard
modular phone wire to make the connection between network points. These
are probably the most common type of appletalk connectors, because they
are so inexpensive, but Apple also makes an equivelant device, called
Localtalk, I think. Localtalk uses cabling that looks almost like an
ADB cable, (It's a mini-din connector), but only has three pins,
instead of four. Since it comes from Apple, of course, it's more
expensive.
	One little known fact is that if you only have two nodes on
your network, like I think is being described here, you can use a 
standard //gs to Imagewriter II cable (din-8 male to din-8 male) to
connect the nodes, and forget about PhoneNet or Localtalk. This works
great, I am doing this right now between my //gs and my Mac+(ick! :).
As soon as you go beyond two nodes, you must use some form of network
connector, as described above. Hope this helps,

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