Re: Mac->IIgs AppleTalk -- possibly my only option, a good one?

[Doug Brown <dgbrown@SPAMMENOT.eoni.com>]

In article <macboy2000-10D441.12344219121999@news>, Aaron Batiuk 
<macboy2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

> In article <385a676b.9650991@129.3.17.35>, 
> edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSbigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.) wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:03:28 GMT, Blake Patterson
> > <blake@blakespot.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >	I have a blue&white G3 400 Mac (that, of course, has no floppy 
> > >drive). 
> > >Apparently all of the USB floppy drives I can add to this machine are
> > >MFM and will not write 800K HFS (or ProDOS) disks.
> > ...
> > >Anyway -- I need to find a way to move ShrinkIt disks from
> > >the Mac to the IIgs.
> > ...
> > 
> > I wouldn't bet on being able to do Localtalk through your G3's "serial
> > port"...Never tried it myself, but it doesn't sound like something the
> > Mac would let ya "get away with" ;)
> > 
> 
> No, it DOES work, if the particular adapter in question supports it 
> (this type of adapter generally does, USB-serial adapters never support 
> it)
> 
> > <snip>
> 
> __________________________________________________________________
> Aaron Batiuk, B.E., B.Sc.
>   macboy2000@yahoo.com

Yes, this adapter does work because it uses the G3 modem port. The 
USB-serial ones don't support LocalTalk but this one that goes into the 
G3 modem port does. I would bet on it :)

Doug

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