WITLICKI@WILLIAMS.BITNET (11/06/85)
I have been looking at maybe writing a serial sever box for
Appletalk. (i.e. a quick prototype - use a Macwith ATalk in
one port and serial RS-232 out another..)
The use might be for 4 or 20 Macs on a local twisted pair
AppleTalk net to contend for 1 or maybe 4 outgoing modem or
vaxports or ....
I've talked to Rich Brown at Dartmouth about using their work
(KSP - Kiewit Stream Protocol) which is okay with Rich but it is
only a start, not merely a weekend hack to get what i want...
(you have to write the accompanying terminal emulator which talks
over AppleTalk instead of the serial port for example...)
My question is: Is anybody working on an Appletalk serial
server box - either as a commercial product or as an academic
sharable item???
- Randy Witlicki Networks and Micros Support
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267
(413) 597-3073
preferred network address: witlicki%williams.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa
P.S. does anybody know of any IBM PC AppleTalk cards on the market ?westjw%frog@NOSC.ARPA (Joel West) (11/06/85)
Re: IBM PC Apple Talk cards
I can't lay my hands on my Oct 28 Infoworld, but there I read a review
of an Appletalk card, with some software for the laserwriter, ca. $500.
Quoting from a "capsule" review (3 crt's out of 5)
For IBM PC who cover their neighbor's Apple Laserwriter,
PC Mac Bridge offers a way to hook into the Apppletalk
network and get laser-printer quality. Documents
require preparation to take full advantage of font
changes, and the documentation could use more examples
for the beginner, but PC Mac Bridge gives good results.
Joel West CACI, Inc. - Federal
westjw@nosc.ARPA
{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!noscvax!westjwmikeb@pyramid.UUCP (11/08/85)
Tangent Technologies has a board, located in Georgia for the IBM PC. It retails for $595, and includes Appletalk libraries for Lattice C. Centram, Berkeley, CA has a board they are going to market in January for $300, together with there TOPS software package which allows a PC to be a file server for a MAC. Apple has developed a board for the PC internally but has never released it to the public, apparently to cost $295.00