Re: Connecting Apple IIe to "Ethernet": Questions

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

In article <4qce87$r3l@lynx.unm.edu>,
stephen e buggie <buggie@auriga.unm.edu> wrote:
> 
> My college this week wired the builing for Internet to faculty offices ---
> When I get out of this "Windoozz" computer classroom and onto my Apple 
> II, my full-screen SIG file will be seen again!
> 
> The wall jack connector is a telephone-style socket.  I have heard them 
> talking of "Ethernet" but dont know what that means.

Does the connector look like a wider version of a telephone modular
plug, with a row of about eight pins along one side?  If so, it is
probably a 10Base-T Ethernet connection.

There is no way you can connect this to an Apple II, short of getting
an Ethernet card, and there is no publically available Ethernet card
for the Apple II.

If there was such as card, it is quite likely that it would be limited
to being used with EtherTalk (AppleTalk over Ethernet) for 8-bit Apple
II machines, and your Windoze network will be using a different network
protocol.  A IIgs with an Ethernet card should also be able to support
TCP/IP over the network, but I doubt it would ever work with the
standard networking provided by Windoze for Workgroups, OS/2, Novell,
etc., unless there was a gateway provided by a server on the network.

> What will be needed?   Can the wall socket of Ethernet connect to the 
> Super Serial card db-25 socket?

Definitely not.
-- 
David Empson
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