Re: Request for Help (AppleTalk)

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Snit (snit@nevada.edu) wrote:

: I will soon be moving to an apartment where a Mac can keep my GS
: company during the day when the humans are gone.  I wanted to help set
: up my GS so that it can better talk to the Mac.  Seems that AppleTalk
: can only be set up on Slot 7.  I have

: Slot 1 - printer
: Slot 2 - modem
: Slot 3 - Screen
: Slot 4 - Mouse
: Slot 5 - 5 1/4 drive
: Slot 6 - 3 1/2 drive   
           ^ you mean the other way around dontcha?
: Slot 7 - Hard Drive

: I would love to set Apple talk to work over Slot 1 (use a networked
: printer).  I played around for a while - I can move my hard drive to
: slot 5 or 6, but then I loose my floppy drives.  Am I missing
: something?  Will my poor GS be unable to get a network connection with
: the Mac (unless I give up having floppies).  

The first thing I'd advise is to get a ROM 3, which supports appletalk in
slots 1, 2, and 7. The next thing I'd suggest is putting the the hard disk
in slot 6. How often do you actually use 5.25 disks and the hard disk at
the same time?
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool