Re: Connecting to Ethernet

[Vincent Hancock <vhancock@onyx.southwind.net>]

On 18 Nov 1996, Will Baguhn wrote:

> Toby Reiter  <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU> wrote:
[snip]
> >my college (Oberlin) has really piqued my curiousity. It is a cable which 
> >connects to a serial mini din8 port, ends in what looks like a rs232 
> >serial connection (male I guess) which is then attached to a female rs232 
> >which then become a ethernet, cable and is plugged into an ethernet port 
> >on the wall. Does anyone know what this thing is, and could it be used 
[snip]
> Offhand, it sounds like a little tiny box that turns ethertalk packets
> into localtalk packets.

  FYI, these 'little tiny box'es are called bridges.  There are at
least three companies currently making them (Asante, Farralon, ?) for
~<US$95 a piece.  They come in real handy when you want to use an
AppleTalk printer (e.g. ColorStyleWriter) on an EtherTalk network.
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