Re: Using Appletalk on the GS (What works best?)

["Lyle" <lyle@a2central.com.remove-bfh-this>]

  To: nyder
 > I have a bunch of various old macs.

 > I have an Apple II GS

 > I also have a bunch of various cards for old macs, like ethernet and 
 > whatever they used before that (name slips me, token ring?).

 > So, I know I can hook up the GS to a Mac thru Appletalk, and I can
 > hook up the mac to a network of some sort.

 > Anyways, you have the idea.

 > What I'm wondering is, what OS is best to use on the mac?  Which mac's work 
 > best for this?

 > I have:
 > LCIII
 > IIcx
 > IIsi
 > Centrix 660AV
 > couple of various towers, think they are both OS 8.6 68040 cpu's
 > (just to finish the list, Mac Plus, Mac SE, Mac Classic, and a empty 
 > MacintoshTV case, lol)

 > I have a whole bunch of various internal cards and even weird external 
 > stuff also (external SCSI to Ethernet adaptor, and a external SCSI
 > video color card), so I can pimp out any of those computers with
 > probably whatever is needed.

 > In fact, I have a big bin full of refurbished motherboards also.  I'm
 > not even a mac person and I have probably as much mac stuff as all my other 
 > computers.  lol

 > Anyways, I'd like to use like the LCIII because it's the smallest, but that 
 > limits the cards that can go into it.   While I do have the RGB
 > 12" monitor that goes with the LCIII, i'd really like to keep it a headless 
 > solution.   You know, just boot it up and maybe have it play
 > a beep or tune after it's all loaded up.

 > My goal is to get a computer I can use for storage and accessing crap
 > for my various old computers.   What I'd love, is to be able to have 1 
 > computer that I can hook up any of my old computers to, however.  Like
 > the C64's could use the Xcable, same for my older amiga's (parnet).
 > I have a pair of DD 360k drives that I will be using for making
 > floppies for whatever systems I can with them (still trying to get a
 > cheap older catweasel).

 > I know that last part is off topic of my subject, but I wanted to give
 > you an idea of what i wanted to do in the long run.

 > Hooking up an Apple IIx (x stands for which ever model, lol)  using
 > like ciderpress/adt pro is a simple solution, thankfully.  lol   But I have 
 > a TRS80 Mod 4 portable, and making floppies for that is a
 > different matter.  =)

 > oh, I do have the microIDE in my IIgs if that matters for anything.

 > thanks for any suggestions or comments.  I know this is an apple II 
 > newsgroup, and even though my question is related, I find that there
 > are more peeps in this channel that know about the older macs then in
 > the mac channel.  guess that shouldn't be a surprise...

Refer to the article "Networking an Apple IIgs and a Mac via AppleTalk" found 
under "THE TINKERER'S CORNER" in the November 2002 issue of The Lamp!

<ftp://bbs.a2central.com/the.lamp!/LAMP_02/TLMP0211.TXT>

Lyle Syverson