Re: Connecting Apple //e to Ethernet

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"Mark Percival" <mark@syndicomm.com> wrote in message 
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> 0markusj@asme.org wrote:
>
>>I would rather not add another machine to the mix.  Would it be
>>possible to emulate a Mac on my PC and emulate appletalk so that the
>>//e with the workstation card would work?
>
> Probably not.  First you would need a Localtalk card for your PC and then
> you would have to get Windows NT/2000 Advanced Server and try to get
> Macintosh Services to work with the Localtalk card.  I don't know if this
> is possible at all.  Even if you were able to get it to work then getting
> the Apple II Workstation Card to work with this setup is unlikely.  I have
> only been successful getting my Workstation Card to work with a Macintosh.
>
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I believe that last version of NT that supported any PC localtalk card was 
NT 3.1, which oddly enough is the first version of NT.  You could get a 486 
dirt cheap and run NT 3.1 on it.

A better solution is to run an product called PC Maclan on your PC. It 
supports a few of the localtalk cards and allows you to serve files over 
localtalk with your PC. Anyone tried this with a IIe? My Mac LC 580 
connected fine, the GS would only want to log in as "Guest." With the demo 
version of PC Maclan, you have to log in as "Demo," but the registered user 
option is grayed out on the GS. Anyone know why?

-Greg