Re: Commodore drives can be controlled on Apple II serial!

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Will Smith (wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com) wrote:

: |>: that's great, if you HAVE a Mac.  i don't.  probably never will,
: |>: either.  i might be talked into looking at an Appletalk card for my
: |>: PC, though...
: |>
: |>Who says you need one? The bridge on my network is a Disk II sized box and it
: |>does its thing even if there isn't a Mac on the network. The config software
: |>runs on Macs though.

: there you go.  everywhere i turn around in the Apple ][ universe, i
: keep hearing about those pesky Macs.  if i wanted to get the disk
: images for GS/OS, i'd need a Mac to put them on floppy.  if i wanted
: to network the //gs, i need a Mac or another //gs.  the list
: continues, ad nauseum.

Well I'd say it follows you hear about "pesky Macs", since they came from
the same company and all. If you can't handle it, sorry.

The Fastpath router I have routes Appletalk out of the box, but if you want
to set up Appletalk zones or route TCP or DECnet or the other supported
protocols, ya gotta configure it. And that means using a Mac. Again, if you
can't handle that, sorry.

: show me an ethernet card that allows the //gs to do TCP/IP, and i'll
: show you an ecstatic computer geek...  :)

I'd take ethertalk, but that's all I would need myself. I don't have a modem
on my IIgs any more since there aren't any TCP client apps or PPP for that
matter.
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