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From: lra@rduxb.UUCP (Lonnie R. Abelbeck, AT&T Bell Labs)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: 128K Mac ==> AppleTalk Controller
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Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 16:23:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 21 16:23:42 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA
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How hard (expensive?) would it be to take an old 128K Mac logic board and
convert it into a smart RS-422 AppleTalk device controller?

The point is this, with AppleTalk you loose your printer port... it would
be sure nice if you could access a shared imagewriter on the network.  With
an old 128K logic board, you have the ports, SCC, 68000, and memory... just
add a power supply and replace a couple of RAM chips with ROM to bootstrap
the "smart" AppleTalk node, and walla.

Is anyone doing this, or am I overlooking an important point?

Lonnie Abelbeck
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