Re: Apple IIe TCP-IP w/ LANceGS Card

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In article <brnu7r024k5@enews2.newsguy.com>, "Charlie"
<charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com> wrote:
> Please excuse my ignorance.  I know next to nothing about Ethernet.
> I do wonder why it is necessary to have an Ethernet card on an Apple IIe for
> email, newsgroups, FTP, etc.  I don't need one on a PC to do these things.
> Is it a matter of "not enough memory" or "not fast enough"?
> What is it that I'm missing?


One might desire an Ethernet card in an Apple IIgs or in an enhanced Apple
IIe in order to hook up to high speed type internet connections...such as
a cable modem or xDSL, as hookup to those require at minimum a 10-base-T
Ethernet interface.

For example, if an Apple IIgs had an Ethernet card installed, one could
then hook up the Ethernet card to a cable modem via a 10-base-T Etheret
cable, and in turn, the cable modem would be hooked up to the cable
company's head end via the coaxial cable running from one's cable modem to
the cable wall outlet jack in your residence (similar but not exactly same
situation for xDSL hookup).

One would still need a TCP/IP stack on the computer in question, and in
addition, the client software on the computer in question to access the
various features of the Internet (ie. web broswer client, email client,
NNTP newsreading client, FTP client, Telnet client, etc.).

Another reason to have an Ethernet card in an Apple II would be to hook it
up to your local area network (whether it be PC's, Mac's, UNIX boxen,
etc.) for presumably easier file transfer/information sharing). It would
be much faster than connection to the LAN via the LocalTalk port(s) built
into the IIgs....and the IIe doesn't have any networking options built
into it at all.

regards, Perry