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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: Appletalk on a //e?
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Date: 22 Oct 90 06:54:27 GMT
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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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