Re: appletalk on the apple IIe or IIgs ---> appletalk on a "modern" mac

[David Schmenk <dschmenk@GACH.gmail.com>]

Simon D. Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Gregory Weston wrote:
>
> > In article <1169040186.757759.271300@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
> >  "1capybara@gmail.com" <1capybara@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I noticed Mac OS-X supports appletalk and i have the appletalk ports
> > > (the size and shape of PS2 ports but with a couple extra pins) on my my
> > > aplle IIgs. some apple IIe  alos have appletalk.
> > >
> > > So: how do i connect the two?
> > >
> > > Powermac g4 and Powerbook G4 each have:  ethernet ports, dial-up modem
> > > ports, usb and firewire ports
> > > the powermac also has a speaker out and mic in port.
> > Somewhere along the line, AppleTalk (as a joined hardware and protocol 
> > spec) got broken up into two things. In modern documentation, AppleTalk 
> > refers to a communication protocol (which Apple still supports) and 
> > LocalTalk refers to connection hardware (which Apple does not). I think 
> > you're going to need some sort of bridging solution to get it working. 
> > Asante has/had such a product.
>
> A cheaper, if more cumbersome, solution is to use an older Mac as the
> bridge. Any Mac with ethernet & serial ports should work. You can use a
> printer cable to connect the IIgs to the old Mac if you don't have
> Localtalk adaptors and install Localtalk Bridge on it.
> Your G4s will have to be booted into 0S9, as I don't believe you can
> connect to an OSX server (though it will show up in the chooser).
> -s
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I believe I have the ultimate Rube Goldberg setup.  To connect my IIgs 
to my Linux server, I have an SE/30 running A/UX and AppleShare Pro 3 
for the LocalTalk network.  The SE/30 is cabled through ethernet to my 
G4 Cube running OS X. Since these the machines are too far away from a 
cabling setup, the Cube uses its Airport card to share its network 
connection from the server to the SE/30.  The SE/30 then uses NFS to 
mount my home directory on the server, which is then re-shared through 
AppleShare to the IIgs. And it works.  It takes awhile to get everything 
booted though.  And uses enough electricity for a medium sized IT 
department.  However, I feel I have made a physical connection between 
Apples first products to their most recent, so its worth it :-)  Oh, my 
IIgs is the IIe upgrade version with a Monitor III and Disk IIs for that 
genuine retro feel. Anybody top that?

Dave...