Re: Apple ][ Workstation Card

[Gary Gouriluk <gvgouril@shaw.ca>]

Hello David,

You write as if you have a working Apple Workstation card. Do you use it 
through a dedicated Mac server using Apple server software? Is that 
software required to use networked printers?

I have an Apple Workstation card in an enhanced IIe. Using the 
Workstation software (under ProDOS 1.9) I can log on to Mac volumes and 
can rename my Laserwriter and Appletalk Imagewriter II. However, using 
the Chooser II, the printers do not appear.

I had hoped that the Apple IIe would be able to use the Mac volumes and 
the printers in the same manner that my IIgs does, but so far I cannot 
use the printers.

Any ideas?

Gary

David Empson wrote:

> Robert Steinmetz <not-rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Will the Apple][ Workstation Card work in an Apple][ or ][+
> >    
>
> It definitely works in an enhanced IIe.  I'm not sure if it will work in
> an unenhanced IIe, let alone a ][+ or ][.
>
> It requires ProDOS 1.5 (ish) or later, and i'm not sure whether anything
> that recent works on a ][ (the ][+ is supported up to 1.9).
>
> Age-wise, the card was released around 1985, in the same sort of era as
> the original Apple SCSI card (1986).  The latter works on a ][+, so the
> workstation card probably does too.
>
> My recollection is that most of the software (LOGIN, LOGOFF, NAMER.II,
> CHOOSER.II) runs in 40-column mode.  If any of it needs 80 columns, that
> would probably rule out the ][+.
>
>