Re: Apple II LocalTalk Card

["Charles Stephens" <charles_stephens@hotmail.com>]

<dre80@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8jqkdg$sks$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hello,
>
> I have recently acquired, among other things, an Apple II LocalTalk Card
> on eBay.  As of yet, I have only seen side views of this card.  I know
> that the plastic connector hanging off of it on two ribbon cables has
> two connectors on it, but are they the 3-pin LocalTalk type connectors,
> or 8-pin connectors to put your own adaptor onto?  The rest of my
> network if PhoneNet, so I'll have to do some planning if this will force
> me to have a segment with original Apple wiring.  Also, I know that this
> card will allow me to boot my IIe from my AppleShare 2.0 file server,
> but I have very limited experience with ProDOS.  I've used DOS 3.3 much
> more.  This may seem incredibly stupid to ask, but how do you start a
> ProDOS program?  It obviously isn't the LOAD and RUN from DOS 3.3....

The connector has two 8-pin mini-din connectors.  One is for the LocalTalk
dongle (which you can plug in phone net adaptors) and the other is a printer
passthru port.  Originally there was a floppy for ProDOS (it does not work
with DOS 3.3) which includes a chooser application and the drivers to mount
file systems from a Mac.  It is all pretty transparent to ProDOS as it can
use path names to access devices so it should work with most behaved ProDOS
apps (like AppleWorks).

You can load and run from BASIC, but you can't use slot/drive numbers.

If you put the card before any other bootable cards, it will attempt to boot
off the network which you need to setup AS2.0/3.0.

cfs