[comp.sys.apple2] Appletalk on a //e?

acmunix@zeus.unomaha.edu (10/22/90)

	Is there a simple way to get a //e to do Appletalk?

	The most elegant solution discovered so far is to upgrade each //e
with a //gs kit, add about a meg of memory, and just use Appletalk from the
//gs desktop.
	Is there a simpler (and less expensive) way to do it?


	Mike

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rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) (10/22/90)

In article <2984.2721b9c5@zeus.unomaha.edu>, acmunix@zeus.unomaha.edu writes:
> 	Is there a simple way to get a //e to do Appletalk?
> 
> 	The most elegant solution discovered so far is to upgrade each //e
> with a //gs kit, add about a meg of memory, and just use Appletalk from the
> //gs desktop.
> 	Is there a simpler (and less expensive) way to do it?
> 
> 	Mike

I had heard that there was an appletalk board out for the // line, but 
other than that, I know nothing about it.

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toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (10/22/90)

Sounds like a job for the Apple //e Workstation Card by Apple. I used to have
a blurb on this but in any case it'll do what you want.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu

unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (10/22/90)

In article <2672.27223f82@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:
>In article <2984.2721b9c5@zeus.unomaha.edu>, acmunix@zeus.unomaha.edu writes:
>> 	Is there a simple way to get a //e to do Appletalk?
>> 	The most elegant solution discovered so far is to upgrade each //e
>> with a //gs kit, add about a meg of memory, and just use Appletalk from the
>> //gs desktop.
>> 	Is there a simpler (and less expensive) way to do it?
	I don't really call that elegant, but I sure like it! You're 
converting all the computers to GSes which is an idea I like! (The more GSes,
the better, I say.. there's support in numbers)
	I presume that's for a school, right? That won't help me solve your
problem, I was just curious.

>I had heard that there was an appletalk board out for the // line, but 
>other than that, I know nothing about it.

	I don't know if they ever released an Appletalk card... I remember
one of my housemates from last year talking about a "workstation card" if
I remember the name right.. I --think-- that was the Appletalk card but
it was BASICALLY another //e on the card... at least another 6502 and
memory I think...  And if I am right that workstation card == Appletalk
card, then it either wasn't released (infeasible or too expensive for
consumers), or it was released and it just didn't sell.  But I'll just say
again that I am nowhere near positive that what I remember hearing about IS the
AppleTalk card... Just thought it MIGHT help though if someone else gives some
confirmation. They sure must give out lots of T Shirts at Apple! Someone
I sort of know who started working at Apple on the 15th got a T shirt that
very same day! (And I think got paid for watching or going to the Mac
presentation).  Also, my housemate had a few Apple T shirts, one of which
had Rocky & Bullwinkle on it and said something about the "65XXX" project.
It -wasn't- referring to the GS though and I don't recall what it referred
to. (Might have been the workstation card for all I remember! heh)

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rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran) (10/22/90)

In article <2984.2721b9c5@zeus.unomaha.edu> acmunix@zeus.unomaha.edu writes:
>	Is there a simple way to get a //e to do Appletalk?
>
>	The most elegant solution discovered so far is to upgrade each //e
>with a //gs kit, add about a meg of memory, and just use Appletalk from the
>//gs desktop.
>	Is there a simpler (and less expensive) way to do it?

Apple has the 'Apple // Workstation Card' or words to that effect; it's
a Localtalk adapter for the //e.  It DOES exist; my wife's school upgraded
about a dozen //e's so they could be served (along with four //GS's) from 
their one Mac.  Go prod your nearest dealer; cost as I recall her mentioning
was around $150, though that is probably after school discounting.

						Bob Halloran
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rgibson@pro-applephelia.cts.com (Russell Gibson) (10/25/90)

In-Reply-To: message from acmunix@zeus.unomaha.edu

You can buy an AppleTalk card for the IIe. Or I should say used to be able to.
Contact your local Apple dealer and I am sure they will be will to sell you
one for less than the IIgs upgrade (I didn't know they still offered that
one). BTW: be prepared to kiss their @#$. The darned thing cost us $240.00.
Pretty rediculas.

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