Re: LocalTalkBridge Now Free

[gblack@vnet.net (Gary Black)]

On Sat, 01 May 1999 22:58:55 -0700, cornelio@san.rr.com (L. Cornelio)
wrote:

>In article <cornelio-3004991922400001@dt050na6.san.rr.com>,
>cornelio@san.rr.com (L. Cornelio) wrote:
>
>>and what can one do on this network? I tried printing over it -- no way.
>>what *is* possible?
>>thanks!
>
>To clarify:

I'm going to follow up on this thread because it is so close to what I
was going to inquire about. What IS possible?

I have a IIGS Rom 3,with a 40 and 46 meg external harddrives, 5.x meg
of Ram. I have built this system from the ground up in the past year
by lurking and asking questions here. I have a parallel card that is
connected in series through a WIN95 pc via SNAP II (parallel printer
sharing device) to a HP 550C. The IIGS is connected via localtalk
(phonenet connectors) to a Mac Classic with 4 megs of ram and a 160
meg external hard drive. Needless to say, I can see all the hard
drives from the IIGS with Appletalk turned on. 

The IIGS has an external Global Village 28.8 modem connected in series
through a Win98 pc's internal modem  to a Win95 pc's internal modem
into the phone line. Thus, if I know the exact ftp address of
something I want, I use the IIGS to dial into a shell account on my
ISP and ftp the file to my directory then SZ it down into a RAM disk
on the IIGS. Or if I find something I want while I am surfing the net
with a Wintel browser, I can stuff the file in my ISP directory then
log off and snag it with the IIGS via the shell account.

Recently I came across some salvage stuff being dumped from a bank's
small Mac network and included was a Dayna Pathfinder - Model DR0100
and a Farallon Ether10-T Starcontroller. I tried setting up the two
Wintel boxes as a network with the Ether-10 box and a couple of NICS,
but no joy. There is something I am missing here, I'm not sure what. I
think the Ether-10 is a transceiver and modern wintel boxes may not
understand what it is saying. And then again, I may not understand
what I am saying. I was going to try to connect the IIGS with the
Pathfinder box.

The Pathfinder looks like some sort of ethernet/localtalk bridge
hardware as it contains those connectors on the rear plus a BNC and an
AUI.

I have the Win98 PC sitting close by and could set up my PowerMac
7100/66 running OS 8.0 near all of the above.

What could I do with the little box?  A search of the web turns up
very little and the Dayna people are defunct.

I have always found many bright ideas here and am sure I will now.

BTW, I know most of you are laughing because your computer room
probably looks just like mine.  My theory is that the silicon is just
using us (humans) to link them together, afterwhich we will be
expendable. :)

Gary