Re: Q: AppleTalk GS to MacSE

[amitai.schlair@usa.net (Amitai Schlair)]

Open Transport requires a 68030 or better. :(

Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote:

> In article <199706220052471544976@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>,
> David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >> GS printer port -->appletalk<--MacSE modem port
> >
> >You cannot connect AppleTalk to the Mac SE modem port, unless you are
> >running Open Transport on the Mac.  "Classic" network only allows
> >AppleTalk to be connected to the printer port.
> 
> I can't verify myself that OT runs on 68000 Macs since I quit using 68000
> boxes for real work before OT came out. But assuming it does, that would work.
> Even easier would be connecting the printer to the modem port since the driver
> software will use either port. Unsolicited comment: it makes approximately
> zero sense to me to have a modem on a IIgs instead of a Mac with the two
> boxes networked, considering how Macs have TCP connectivity, handle fast
> modems more easily, and comm software available for Macs is much better than
> that for IIs. I don't bother keeping a modem connected to my IIgs any more
> since I can FTP files with Fetch then file share 'em over.


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