Re: Where's the Ethernet Support in System 6.0.1?

[joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)]

In article <CAw1sF.J6@wave.scar.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (Brian Tao) writes:
>In article <2311vt$dm1@hub.ucsb.edu>, Eric D. Shepherd writes...
>> 
>> Or, actually, the card hasn't come out yet, which would explain why the
>> drivers are missing.  It's theoretically possible that another system
>> software release would include that.
>
>    Based on a KFest report on a local BBS, Apple redesigned the Apple
>II Ethertalk card three times and finally got it right.  Now they've
>decided not to market it.  Somebody please explain to me the logic
>behind this.  Apple has a (supposedly) fully-functional card and
>software.  Why can't they distribute it through Resource-Central?  It
>won't cost them much money.
>--
>Brian Tao:: taob@io.org (Internex Online, 416-363-3783, 10 lines, v.32bis)
>::::::::::: 90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (University of Toronto, 9T4)
>


Brian - Yes, that was the "rumor" that was going around at KansasFest. I use
the word rumor because it's just speculation. No one knew for a fact
anything about the Ethernet card. In journalistic lingo, it's an
unsubstantiated rumor. I guess until someone from Apple tells us what really
happened with the Ethernet card, we won't know for sure.

Joe