Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!asuvax!hrc!force!covertr From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Spectre and Appletalk Summary: Dan Or David, Please?? Message-ID: <46081bab.14a1f@force.UUCP> Date: 4 Oct 89 20:16:58 GMT References: Organization: gte Lines: 38 In article , cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: > I must agree with the person that brought up the subject of a lack of > an Appletalk interface on the Spectre GCR. I would own a Spectre now > if the Appletalk support was included. Almost every job I've had in > recent memory had an Appletalk network and a nice Laserwriter NX II at > the end of it. How I would have loved to have had a Mega 4 on my desk > running spectre (w/appletalk) instead of a wimpy little Mac plus. I > had my current boss convinced into buying 30-40 Mega 4's with GCR > packages until we realized that his Laserwriters would be useless > without the Appletalk interface. (And don't try to tell me that we > could have bought SM804', as they aren't nearly as good as the Apple > printers). So the end result was that he ended up buying 25 Mac > IIcx's. Typical end to a typical Atari story...sigh... > > Chris To Dan Moore or David Small, What is your status on Appletalk?? I thought I read on GEnie that you had investigated it once. Am I mistaken?? It seems like instead of spending time on sound you could get more sales by making an Appletalk interface for the Spectre or the GCR. Couldn't you have included an Appletalk interface in the GCR?? Could the DC Port serial io box be used as an Appletalk interface?? There seems to be a lot of demand for the GCR with the Appletalk interface. Well, just wondering. Richard Covert . . . .