Re: PC Localtalk card

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

In article <726179284wnr@klatch.demon.co.uk>, John@klatch.demon.co.uk wrote:

>Hi.
>
>Managed to get an Apple LocalTalk card for a PC over the weekend.
>It's an 8-bit ISA card with a 9-pin connector.  The date on the
>card is 1986-1987.

Wow!  I remember seeing one of them on the shelf in the shop when I bought
my IIgs.

If it is a 9 pin female connector, then it is probably the same pinout as
the original Mac 128 and 512.

>Anyway, as there was no software with it, is it any use with my GS?

Highly unlikely.  I expect it provides a similar set of functions to the
IIe workstation card: allowing a PC to access a networked printer, and
possibly allowing logon to an AppleShare server.

I read some information about the card and its software, quite a long time
ago, and the impression I got was that the AppleTalk protocols were buried
very deeply, and it would be next to impossible to do anything "unusual"
with it.

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