Re: Contiki for Apple II sightly held up on networking question

["Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

desiv <desiv@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:CeLOa.9642$OZ2.1646@rwcrnsc54...
> I posted this once before, when the Contiki news first broke...
>
> The C64 Ethernet card info on the Contiki website says:
> "The TFE cartridge is designed around Systor Vest AS' CS8900a-based
Embedded
> Ethernet board."
>
> I found this link for an Apple II ethernet card project, which is a bit
> outdated, but: http://aiiethernet.tripod.com/
>
> Notice the chip they're using???  Here's a quote:
> "This is the chip that makes it all possible. Produced by Crystal
> Semiconductor -- a division of Cirrus Logic -- the CS8900A"
>
> Sounds like these projects need to be introduced to each other!!!!
>
> There's also the "official" Apple //e-GS Ethernet card, the LanceGS, but I
> don't know if it uses the same chipset.  However, it's been out and
working
> for awhile...
>
> It should be doable!!!!
>
> desiv
>
> "Obsbedia2" <obsbedia2@aol.com> wrote in message
> 20030708105337.02871.00000016@mb-m29.aol.com">news:20030708105337.02871.00000016@mb-m29.aol.com...
> > There seems to be some doubt about whether Apple II computers can be
> networked.
> >  I thought they could, since there are networking cards for Apple IIe
and
> IIgs
> > computers.
> > Jay Edwards

What are the capabilities of LocalTalk?  Isn't that the network port used to
connect the IIgs to printers?

- Mike