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From: jack@mcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Use the MIDI port for a network.
Message-ID: <7285@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 16:05:42 EST
Article-I.D.: boring.7285
Posted: Wed Feb 25 16:05:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Feb-87 03:29:55 EST
Organization: AMOEBA project, CWI, Amsterdam
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A couple of people (including me, of course) are currently
thinking of ways to use the MIDI ports to add some sort
of networking to the ST.

Our current ideas go in the direction of a little box, containing
a transformer, and maybe one or two chips for modulation/demod.
would that prove necessary, and connect the atari's using a
broadcast network.
More-or-less along the lines of AppleTalk (if I understand that
correctly from what I grasp from the net), or Ethernet (well, very
slightly so).

However, at this point we haven't actually done anything yet,
so I would be very interested in any ideas you have.
Product descriptions (if that's allowed, of course), ideas,
places to look for more information, everything is welcome.

Please reply to me, and I'll summarize to the net.
(Be assured, if we really develop something, it will be put
in the public domain)
-- 
	Jack Jansen, jack@cwi.nl (or jack@mcvax.uucp)
	The shell is my oyster.