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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Tops advice needed
Keywords: Tops backups printing
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.212447.4903@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 14 Jun 90 21:24:47 GMT
References: <1438@philtis.cft.philips.nl>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <1438@philtis.cft.philips.nl> grant@cft.philips.nl (Joe Grant) writes:

>Hi Net,
>
>        I need some information on Tops. I have a Mac II with an ethernet

We have two mac plusses and a mac II running TOPS over AppleTalk (LocalTalk)
in our office.

>        
>        1. There are two other Macs that I know of in the building, so 
>        maybe they'll also be able to use the Tops solution. Neither has an
>        ethernet card, will this be a problem?

As long as you're happy with the 230KBaud speed of AppleTalk, this should
not be a problem.

>
>        2. If I can backup over Tops, what software would be required to run 
>        the backup or is it bundled with Tops - wishful thinking? I realise 

Tops just lets you mount remote volumes.  They behave exactly like they
were a hard disk connected directly to your local mac.  You should be able
to use any program just like the TOPS volume was local (with the exception
that you can't copy the System file over TOPS for some reason).

>        Any general info. people have on Tops would also be of great help.

We're very happy with TOPS for the simple kind of things we do, but if you
are backing up large amounts of data over AppleTalk, it will be pretty
slow.  It's very easy to use; you have a desk accessory which starts it
up and it's easily learned by novices.  Once you've mounted a volume it
appears as an icon on the desktop just like any other disk.  Hope this
helps....


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