Re: Connecting GS and Mac via AppleTalk

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

David Empson (dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
: In article <death-2909951937020001@kuts6p06.cc.ukans.edu>,
: Death� <death@falcon.cc.ukans.edu> wrote:
: > I need some help connecting my PowerMac with my GS... Disk 7 of system
: > 6.0.1 for the GS

: Disk 7?  It is a six disk set.  Ah - perhaps you are counting the
: "Apple II Setup" disk for AppleShare, which is for a Mac.

The Apple II setup disk comes in the package if you buy it for real I'm pretty
sure, and you find it in the same place when you ftp so it counts as a disk
I guess.

: As Randy said, you cannot boot a IIgs from the Mac's hard drive unless
: the Mac is running AppleShare version 3.0, which is rather expensive
: (but may be available at a lower price now that version 4.0 and later
: are out).  Note that 4.0 and later do NOT support booting an Apple II
: over the network.

3.0 is still sold/supported to my knowledge, since 4.0 requires an '040.
It was still in the $900 range last time I saw it in a catalog.

: Note that the network connection is not very fast - the LocalTalk
: network runs at a similar speed to a 3.5" floppy drive, assuming there
: is not much other traffic.

Yeah boy, when I was using my Plus as a server I tried booting a IIgs and
copying files between the Plus and Quadra at the same time. That made the
Plus run like molasses. I tried doing some stuff in the finder on the Plus
at the same time. It took about half a minute for the about window to come
up! I have an ethernet equipped SE/30 handling server chores now.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool