Re: Network with a Mac

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

Dave Huang (khym@bga.com) wrote:

: Well I thought this thread was about networking Apple IIs with Macs,
: so ethernet is kinda out :P Localtalk is definitely slower than a
: single-speed CD, and I think it's slower than a floppy too. Localtalk
: runs at about 230Kbits/sec, theoretically around 29Kbytes/sec,
: although I generally only see 20Kbytes/sec or so. A single-speed CD is
: 150Kbytes/sec, 7.5 times as fast. I don't know how fast a (800K) 3.5"
: floppy is, but I'd guess around 40Kbytes/sec. (Much less if it's gotta
: seek all over the disk)

Actually as you most likely know, there are products that can bridge localtalk
and ethernet together. So you can use ethernet where you can and localtalk
everywhere else. I can access my ethernet Macs from localtalk boxes as well
as print to my localtalk printers from ethernet.

On the speed thing, I would say that my in experience, localtalk file transfers
are at least as fast as a floppy or single speed CD. The host Mac does the 
file retrieval, which is typically much faster than on an Apple II, so there
is no latency for file access that way. Floppies and CDs on IIs aren't overly
fast.

: Apple IIs are my favorite, but I'm not picky... I'll use anything
: remotely resembling a computer :)

I use plenty of different stuff myself, but I know what I like.
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