Re: Connecting an Apple ][e to a Mac

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

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:

:    If you can find a workstation card for the //e, that'll let you
: install Appletalk and share a drive from the Mac only. [No way for the
: Mac to mount things on the Apple II side; Apple never could be
: bothered to make a server for them.] Thus, you'll have to do all the
: copying from the Apple II side.

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't think I would want a file
server running in the background on an Apple II. It's enough to grind
an 8 MHz Mac to a halt when you put much of a load on it.

:    Null modem is *simple* and *robust*. And that is true elegance in
: design, versus a complicated near-proprietary setup requiring rare
: hardware. But, some have a quota of public worship of the fruity logo
: they must accomplish, and so they'll say stupid things.

Nathan's just torqued off because he can't network his IIgs to whatever
kind of brand X box he has. But if it is too complicated for him like he
lets on, someone can provide him with some remedial localtalk wiring help
I'm sure.

BTW, didn't Steve Jobs say that simplicity is the ultimate sophistocation?
That makes Nathan a Jobs disciple, judging from that last paragraph. That's
not to say that I agree that a null modem is simpler than localtalk, 'cause
it ain't.
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