Re: Prosel8/AppleTalk ???

[see_sig_for_valid_email@no.spam (Simon Williams)]

David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

> > Also, anyone tried running LocalTalk Bridge on a newer Mac with a
> > USB-serial adaptor?
> 
> Won't work.  LocalTalk on the Mac is only supported through the built-in
> serial ports.  It depends on the hardware support provided by the Zilog
> Z8530 SCC chip to implement the bit-synchronous HDLC framing, and is
> very timing critical.
> 
> A USB-Serial adaptor wouldn't be able to handle it without corresponding
> serial hardware and implementing the low level parts of the AppleTalk
> stack (at least the LLAP driver) in the peripheral.

Somehow I thought that would be the case :(

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