Re: DIGICARD and Apple II's

[dcrutch@coplex.coplex.com (Dan Crutcher)]

>Is anyone using a DIGICARD Network with Apple IIe's and IIgs's? If so, do you
>have any clues as to how one might get a modem to work as a networked modem?

I helped a school set up a Digicard network with //e's, GS and Macscs. I 
was told that it would not handle a networked modem. That is, you 
wouldn't be able to use the modem from any station on the network. I 
think that's a fairly dicey proposition even on higher-powered networks 
like AppleShare.

In order for that to work it seems like there would have to be a special 
card installed in each machine (like the workstation cards that connect 
to the Digicard's Shared Resource Controller) so they could physically 
connect to the modem. It would be analogous to controlling a 5.25" disk 
drive on one //e from another //e.