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Re: TFE for Apple

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:05:07 -0500, Bill Garber wrote:
>> Considering the cost of
>> buying the Embedded Ethernet board ($74), bulding one's own (or hacking
>> from an existing board) interface board, and then devloping an TCP/IP
>> stack or module to have Marinetti use a new custom board...
>> It would probably be simplest to get the LanceGS card ($155+S&H) and
>> continue from there.
>
> Not to mention that the embedded ethernet board needs separate R/W low
> signals and the Apple's are composite high/low R/W, you'd need to add a
> selector to split these and send a low signal to each of the ones on the
> ethernet board.

That's amazingly simple - just a single component (a 74LS139). See our
TFE schematics at http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/

/adam
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