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Re: was Re: 65020 CPU? Look this... - now nadanet
Glenn Jones wrote:
Hi Michael,
Michael J. Mahon wrote:
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I was a bit surprised that _no one_ has corresponded with me about
getting their own NadaNet running. ;-( Are they just completely
self-sufficient, and happily networking away in silence? Or is
everyone (?) waiting for the IIgs native-speed-compatible version?
Is the set of programmers with more than one running Apple II tiny?
Or is no one interested enough to give it a try?
I expect the minimum number of systems to illusrate Nadanet's
functionality would be 4? master, scheduler and at least two nodes?
Actually, just two is enough to transfer data and programs from
one to the other, but it does get more interesting if there is
a third machine to act as a Message Server (not scheduler).
I conversed with you about starting a IIgs version as I already have a
gaggle of IIgs's and only 3 IIe's of which 1 is platinum.
Yes, I remember...
You are the reason that I have been looking into a IIgs version
of NadaNet, which would permit NadaNet to work with the IIgs
running (outside NadaNet) at high speed.
But the current DOS and ProDOS versions work fine on a IIgs if
it is set to slow speed in the control panel.
And the web article describes the simple capacitor-snipping
modification of a Platinum //e that restores full pushbutton
input functionality (the capacitors should never have been
put there in the first place).
I thought that constructing the two-transistor interface might be
a barrier, so I added an illustrated construction article to my
web site--but still no takers. ;-(
The article was excellent. My personal barrier isn't construction but
time allocation (too many projects and not enough time :o( )..
I certainly understand that!
I decided to take someone's advice and finish some projects I started a
while ago ... I'm still hopeful that I can replicate your project at
some point as I have found NadaNet and the AppleCrate to be a very cool
project.
Were out here .... thanks for sharing your project with us .. I think
it's certainly great inspiration to carry on in the Apple II world even
if the community at large can't take it any farther then that. :o)
Thanks, Glenn--I appreciate that. And I remain hopeful that more
folks will start to experiment with network computing using their
Apple II machines! Parallelism is both tricky and fun. ;-)
-michael
New Applesoft BASIC interface for NadaNet networking!
Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/