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

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shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>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.

Just because they are made by the same company does not mean that
you have to like them both!

>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.

You could slap in an AppleTalk card for the PC, power up Linux, and
run something.  I recall seeing mention of such a Linux based ATalk
server software here on csa2.

>: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.

A couple of months ago, you would have added SLIP to the list, right?
Just because it does not exist now does not mean it is impossible.