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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Linking PC to Appletalk
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Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 19:55:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 19:55:00 1987
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Shame on me for passing a local newspaper article on the TOPS network
to a friend!  TOPS has a card and software that makes an MS-DOS computer
Apple-Talk compatible (and even lets an Appletalk network run on ordinary
phone lines).  As I recall the cost of hardware plus software for a PC
type computer is just under $400.  I suspect that another comp.sys.apple
reader will known an address or phone number for TOPS.

As far as I know, there is no hardware for connecting a lowly Apple II
to Apple-Talk (odd, eh what?).  However, Don Lancaster has software that
patches a LaserWriter driver into AppleWriter (an Apple II CAN print to
an Apple LaserWriter printer).  Alas, I don't have my back issues of
Open Apple at the office, but I'm sure someone can send you Don's address/
phone number too (now that you mention it...).

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ARPA:   sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu       Murphy A. Sewall
BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM                          School of Business Admin.
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