Re: AppleWorks --> Mac

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4ur0tr$9sr@nyx.cs.du.edu>, tcompter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Thomas
Compter) wrote:

>Paul V. Colvin (paulcol@teleport.com) wrote:
>: What is the best way to get AppleWorks  or Student Writing and Publishing
>: Center (by Learning Company) files onto Macs so they can be edited and
>: printed?  
>: 
>: My school has about 20 IIe's that we want to use for word processing
>: (among other things). We will be getting about the same number of Macs in
>: this year. We have 2 GS's, but they are pretty much stock models with very
>: little RAM.
>
>No one else has mentioned this yet, but if the computers 
>are going to be in some sort of computer lab, you could 
>network them and print directly from the IIe's, I believe. 

Only if you add network cards of an appropriate type to each machine.  The
Mac and IIgs have network hardware (LocalTalk) built in, but the IIe needs
a Workstation card.

The IIgs can only provide full AppleTalk access if it has at least 1MB of
RAM and booting via GS/OS.

(It might be able to use a IIe workstation card with less memory, but only
under ProDOS-8; I haven't tried it.)

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