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From: bbs00068@uafcseg.uucp (Joel Kolstad)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Appletalk <--> IBM PC
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Date: 31 Jul 90 20:12:55 GMT
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Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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Hi there.  One of the places that I do voluteer working for is just about
to get an Appletalk going to network all of there Apple ][GS'es with
a Mac SE/30 as a file server.

Couple of questions... there are a bunch of old Apple ][s that they still have
around... any way to hook these in?

More important question:  They also have an Epson IBM XT clone that they'd
really like to hook into the network.  Any way to do it?

Also, I'd like a little information about Appletalk...  I hear that it's
basically a high-speed serial connection.  Are there separate lines to do bus
control?  Or are things just sent in packets and packet headers tell where
a packet is going to?  Does the actual port of a machine speaking Appletalk
need to have interrupt capabilities?  And just how fast is Appletalk anyway?

Thanks for any information you people out there who respon.  Please e-mail
responses to kolstad@cae.wisc.edu.  If there is any interest, I can later
summarize what happened.  Thanks!

							---Joel Kolstad
					    	      kolstad@cae.wisc.edu