Re: IIGS network?

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"guy-jin" <guyvf@usa.net> wrote

> But what I want to know is, What was
> the name of the mac software that did this,

Probably AppleShare 2.0 or 3.0.  Rev 2.0 takes over the Mac completely, 3.0
allows you to do other things with the Mac while it is acting as a server.
They are obsolete, and you can't buy them from Apple anymore, but if you
ask, someone will send you the software.

 how
> did the IIGS know to get files from the network,

It is built in to the ROM of a ROM 3 IIgs. The earlier ROM versions of the
IIgs cannot network boot, they need a boot disk to start the process. Other
than that, it works the same.

> and has anyone else here ever used a similar setup?
>

Well, not a whole classroom of IIgs's! But it's a good way to transfer files
from a Mac, and just fun to do.
-Paul