Re: AppleTalk - Help!

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

rheinze@lrc.edu wrote:
: Can anyone help me with AppleTalk?
: I want to link my son's Mac and my IIgs.  I bought what is called a
: Appletalk cable.  But the pin configuration does not allow it to
: be used the the serial port.   What do I need to do the
: AppleTalk link?   Is there more hardware?

Yes, certainly. What you got would be on e of those RJ-11 (Western, tele-
phone-plug style) cables. You need ATalk boxes for each device you connect.
You can get pretty cheap ones from 3rd party vendors. See a recent GS+ for
an excellent article on ATalk.

Hope it helps

Soenke

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