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

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

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

: |>I find myself wondering from where and why people get such off the wall 
: |>ideas for making stuff work with Apple IIs. This ISA to Apple II peripheral
: |>slot converter idea just to get an ethernet card to work is the latest head
: |>scratcher along these lines. For my part, I'm content to use mine as is
: |>for what it can do and using more up to date equipment for other stuff.

: some ideas may be "off the wall", and many may not work out, but at
: least it's SOMETHING.  i find a lot of my time being spent on my Linux
: machine (an AMD k5 box), but i'd like to rig my //gs to it.  i don't
: have any serial ports to spare, so using a serial connection is out,
: but i'd LIKE to think that one day i might connect the two with an
: ethernet connection.  THAT way, my wife could use the PC whilst i go
: off on the 'Net (via the Linux machine) and chat on irc or
: something...   :)

Well wanting ethernet isn't off the wall, but wanting to use some ISA slot
converter contraption is to my thinking. I went the bridge route to get my
IIgs and other localtalk devices to talk to my Macs on ethernet.
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