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Re: IIgs and OS X filesharing solutions
M. Pender (mpender@hotmail.com) wrote:
: On 2/24/04 12:33 AM, in article
: 1a410081.0402232033.108df638@posting.google.com, "Michael Spangler"
: <mspangler@gemsi.com> wrote:
: > Cheapest solution I found was an old mac with an ethernet card (LC
: > class will do), system 7.5, and LocalTalk Bridge. I was using an LC
: > III with good results, currently I have moved it up to a 7600 running
: > system 8.1. Localtalk bridge will not run on 8.6 or up, and is rumored
: > to be unreliable on 8.5. I never ran 8.5, so I couldn't say myself.
: >
: > The GS talks to the 7600 vis local talk, the G4 talks to the 7600 via
: > ethernet. The only thing that doesn't work is the GS printing to the
: > HP5MP (also on ethernet). Fortunately, I have localtalk card in the
: > imagewriter, so that works for my limited printing needs from the GS.
: What does the localtalk bridge software do for you? Is that so you can
: access other computers via TCP/IP from the IIgs?
Localtalk Bridge allows the Appletalk network to extend across both the
Ethernet and Localtalk networks. It allows the IIgs to see available
nodes on the Ethernet ("Ethertalk") side and it allows Ethertalk machines
to see Localtalk nodes.
Localtalk Bridge does not speak TCP/IP, but it will pass MacIP packets
(which are TCP/IP packets encapsulated in the AppleTalk protocol).
: I used a different configuration with my PC/Linux box, Mac, and IIgs all
: connected by ethernet by using a localtalk-to-ethernet adapter on the IIgs.
: Its kind of slow at ~300k baud, but it works. Besides, the files I would
: move back and forth were pretty small.
: I did it so that I could use the hard drive space of the Mac from the IIgs;
: I never really saw the appeal of running email or other TCP/IP applications
: from the IIgs.
I'm still trying to get MacIP-based TCP/IP service on my IIgs. Consider this:
a) My connection to the Internet now is a DSL line. Since I have that
service, and since I don't have a terminal server, TCP/IP on the IIgs is
the best way I have to make those resources available to the IIgs.
b) There are some things that are simply better done on a IIgs. For
instance, I use shell accounts for mail and news. On the IIgs, the shell
display is easier to read than on the Mac (the text is bigger, for
starters...) and if I do that with the IIgs it frees up the ENTIRE screen
on the Mac for more appropriate things.
Here's an example...some nights, I participate in an IRC chat session. If
I could do that on the IIgs, I could still edit video on the adjacent Mac
without having to leave room on the screen for an IRC window.
c) IIgs'es are cheap and plentiful. You can have a IIgs in any room of
the house even if you only have one high-end computer. Use the IIgs to
access resources stored on the high-end computer. I've toyed with the
idea of using a IIgs in my living room to control presentations of
QuickTime movies played on my Macintosh (upstairs) connected to the living
room TV. I suggested in another thread the possibility of using the IIgs
as an automated information integrator...a machine that can run off to the
Web and get useful text information and present it quickly and cleanly.
Remember the 'GS in every room' idea? How about different information
agents on each machine? In the living room, the IIgs presents television
listings and finds movie descriptions. In the kitchen, it tracks news
headlines and current weather conditions. In the bathroom, it aggregates
interesting web 'blogs'. Use your imagination.
Of course, I am not doing any of this stuff just yet. But that's the kind
of vision I have for making my ancient computers a little more useful once
I get the network running properly.
--Dave Althoff, ][.
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