Re: Appletalk on a IIgs with phoneNet connection to Win2K?

["Rev. Roy Miller" <millers@inetnebr.com>]

John Oyler wrote:

> > So, could a Lisa, with the right driver, use the RS-422 port as an
> > AppleTalk port??
>
> Roy,
>     I am almost certain the Lisa could do appletalk. Butchering a phonenet
> dongle might be necessary, but would be trivial. The lisa is 68k with what?
> 1 meg of ram? That's more than the first macs, so it looks like it's
> powerful enough to do it. Question is, is there enough info floating around
> about the lisa, and the proper development tools to compile the code? Would
> be fun though, can't wait til I have a Lisa.

Lisa was developed, as was the later Mac, using Pascal (and the Pascal system
Assembler.) It's a 68000 at 5 mhz, my Lisa has one meg, though a friend might be
able to help me get it up to it's limit of 2 megs of RAM (I never understood
limiting a 24 bit address bus chip to 1/4 or less of it's address space....)

>
>
> Other computers that are apparently localtalk capable include...
>
> Various SGI boxen, which have rs422 in either db25 or de9...
> Atari Falcon, and other atari's with LAN ports... (no drivers or appletalk
> stack available, though there are works in progress)
> The PC (obvious to most of us, I think, requires one of several Ltalk cards
> for the isa or pci bus)

I have an ISA card and software - but it's limited to a 25 mhz machine... I'm
planning to stick it in an old IBM PS/1 486/25 and run PC-DOS on it.

>
> Apple II (the GS has it built in, the IIe requires a workstation card)
> Amiga 2/3/4000 (requires the emplant card, seemingly only works in
> emulation, another card, the Doubletalk, apparently can do file/print
> sharing from workbench)
>
> Other than the obvious, I can only confirm that the SGI can actually do it,
> using a particular version of netatalk. I found instructions on the web
> awhile back. Also, finally got my localtalk pc card working a few weeks ago,
> though it's not quite all there yet.  Just wish  it didn't conflict with my
> arcnet card.
>
> *off-topic* On another note, would you happen to know where a person could
> find the pinouts for the Lisa expansion slots?

On eBay there is usually someone trying to sell full schematics for the Lisa,
would that cover it?

Roy

>
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> > I'd love to have my Lisa AppleTalked to my Mac/II network.
>
> Me too. But first things first... I must find a Lisa!!! ;-)
>
> > Roy