Re: Apple IIGS on Ethernet?

[viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)]

herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung) writes:

>Previously landt@acfcluster.nyu.edu wrote;

>>        I don't know if there is really an answer to this question, but
>>there's no hurt in trying, so here goes:  My campus has an Ethernet
>>system rigged up so that students can hook computers right up to the
>>campus network from their rooms, unfortunately, my computer is an Apple
>>IIGS.  Is there any way to
>>        A) equip and IIGS to make it Ethernet compatible; OR
> 
>The Ethernet card that was announced two years ago would have made it
>possible, but I understand that the project has been junked.

	Close, but no it would not have *unless* the campus backbone
supported Appletalk directly and you had some sort of Appletalk system
to connect to.  ISU has a rather nifty fiber-optic backbone supporting
Ethernet at 10Mbits/sec, but the card was not going to be a strait
ethernet card so you could not use it for Telnet or FTP access directly
like you can with virtually every other computer.  As I was told, it
was just a fast Appletalk network card, with no support for anything
else.  Pity, too, as Apple lost business and Supra gained some.

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