Re: Okay, now how do I get them talking?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Dave Althoff Jr. wrote:

>In one corner:
>A shiny new 2002 Macintosh dual-1GHz G4 running MacOS 10.2.
>
>In the other corner:
>A somewhat battered 1987 ROM-00 upgraded to ROM 01 Apple IIgs single-3MHz
>65C816 running GS/OS 6.0.1
>
>The IIgs has a couple of serial ports, either of which could be used for
>LocalTalk; a SCSI hard drive, a 3.5" drive, a 5.25" drive, and a SCSI Zip
>100.
>
>The G4 has an Ethernet port, a couple of FireWire ports, a couple of USB
>ports, a DVD-RW drive.
>
>I'd like to be able to move data between these machines, but it seems that
>they have absolutely nothing in common anymore.  And to add insult to
>injury, Apple has decided not to support LocalTalk in OS-X, probably
>because they haven't built a machine with a serial port in something like
>three years.
>
>Setting aside for the moment the fact that I need a serial port to talk to
>my hand-held (hey, if I can get the G4 and the GS talking to one another I
>can let the hand-held talk to the GS and go from there...) I wonder if
>there are any tricks I am missing.  Do I need a LanceGS...will that do me
>any good trying to talk to the G4?  Do I have to abandon thoughts of
>Localtalk and slum it with FTP?

There are others in this group who are much more experienced than I
in such networking matters, but I will hazard a suggestion:

You need an older Mac to serve as a matchmaker.  An older Mac
is available for a pittance at thrift stores, can run the free download
LocalTalk Bridge from Apple to solve you network interconnection
problem, and has a 3.5" Superdrive to provide Apple II media
compatibility.

The details have been repeated enough in the last year or so that
it should be in the "networking" FAQ by now, but Google Groups
can always resurrect it in any event.

-michael

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