Re: Accessing Appletalk file shares on a IIgs

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

Greg & David,

thanks for the info, I'll stick to the cheaper ones that use phone cabling
if they work the same.

Mark


>There are two different ways you can do localtalk networks...
>
>1.  The way you are thinking about which has drop boxes that use
>    standard phone lines for making the connections, and
>
>2.  The actual Apple localtalk cabling which used drop boxes that
>    had two mini-din 3 connectors and used actual Apple localtalk
>    (read expensive) cabling.  The drop boxes came in two different
>    flavors...a DB-9 male with two mini-din-3 female connectors and
>    a mini-din-9 male with two mini-din-3 female connectors.
>
>I currently have my apartment wired up with a mix of both...there was
>an adapter cable that would go between Phonenet and Apple's localtalk
>cabling, so overall they are fully compatible with each other, they
>just used different connectors and cabling.
>
>Greg B.