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Re: Apple // workstation card



>Does this card allow a apple // to hook directly to a pc w/o a mac in the
>middle?  Does it assign a ip address also?
I wish!  No, unfortunately, all this is, is a Localtalk on a card option. It 
is for networking a Apple //e into a Localtalk network usualy via a server 
boot on a Mac from Appleshare 2.0 (dedicated System 6 based Appleshare running 
on a SE or SE/30), or Appleshare 3.0 or 3.0.3 (which runs underSYstem 7.1 
through 7.5.5. It allows the //e to boot into ProDOS from a Mac without 
floppy, or, with the 5.25 floppys set up propperly you can boot then use the 
ProDOS finder to connect to attached Macs.  
For IP on a Mac you need either 1 a LANceGS (cool card that!) or, one of the 
semi-mythical Apple ethernet cards.  For a discussion of these from one who 
knows...  see Tony Diaz's very well written discussion at 
http://www.apple2.gs/AIIEthernet.html  

-Bart
Keeper of the Network from Heck
oh, and dispite its lack of Prodos  support: Jaguar RULES!