Re: A TCP/IP Question:

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Jonas Bevren <jbevren@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On 1 Feb 2000, Supertimer wrote:
>
>> Actually, I discovered recently that a third party manufacturer is making
>> LocalTalk cards for the IIGS.  This was posted by a csa2 reader who

Oops, I meant LocalTalk cards for the PC!  Why would the IIGS
need a LocalTalk card (hitting myself over the head)!

>> was looking up information about the IIGS/Mac serial chip.  Check the
>> http://www.dejanews.com/ DejaNews archive and search for "AppleTalk"
>> or "Localtalk" on csa2 in the last two months.  He posted the URL for
>> the source of the cards and they were not prohibitively expensive either.
>
>The chip that apple uses for appletalk (at least in my mac SE, macIIx,
>macII, macIIcx, and laserwriter IIntx and IIg) is a zilog serial/sdlc
>controller.  Zilog is very nice about posting information in the form of PDF
>formatted documents.  If you cant find the info on zilog's site
>(http://www.zilog.com), have a look at questlink (http://www.questlink.com)
>under their IC index.  Just search for the part number, which I believe is
>z8530 (it's ID is similar to the vintage mac's scsi chip, the 5380).
>
>Over all, getting the chip on a //gs (or //e, etc) should be pretty easy. 
>Programming a kernel extension for it is way beyond my knowhow in the apple
>world =)
>
>anyhow, have at 'em!