Re: IIGS network?

[Seonho Choi <schoi004@typhoon.ocis.temple.edu>]

Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net> wrote:

Is it true that if I ask for AppleShare Server (2.0 or 3.0), someone will 
send me the software?

> "guy-jin" <guyvf@usa.net> wrote

>> But what I want to know is, What was
>> the name of the mac software that did this,

> Probably AppleShare 2.0 or 3.0.  Rev 2.0 takes over the Mac completely, 3.0
> allows you to do other things with the Mac while it is acting as a server.
> They are obsolete, and you can't buy them from Apple anymore, but if you
> ask, someone will send you the software.

>  how
>> did the IIGS know to get files from the network,

> It is built in to the ROM of a ROM 3 IIgs. The earlier ROM versions of the
> IIgs cannot network boot, they need a boot disk to start the process. Other
> than that, it works the same.

>> and has anyone else here ever used a similar setup?
>>

> Well, not a whole classroom of IIgs's! But it's a good way to transfer files
> from a Mac, and just fun to do.
> -Paul



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