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From: kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Network!?  What's that?
Message-ID: <446@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 21:44:10 GMT
References: <46700045@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> <625@eplrx7.UUCP>
Reply-To: kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich)
Organization: Ardent Computer
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>From article <46700045@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu>, by msf1537@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu:
>> What is the best way to connect one hard drive to two Macs?
>> 
>[stuff deleted]
>
>> Ideally, one would be able to sit down, turn on the hard disk,
>> turn on either one of the Macs and have it boot from the hard disk.  Then, a
>> second person would come in, turn on the 2nd Mac, and also boot from the hard
>> disk, with both persons writing and reading to the hard disk (possibly even 
>> to the same application) at the same time.
>
In article <625@eplrx7.UUCP> lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence A. Deleski) writes:
[
>One way around this is using PhoneNet with TOPS.  

Actually I use LocalTalk cabling (it was cheap for me), but Lawrences'
description is the way I did it too.  I have my 128K->512KE "networked" with
my Mac II, and they both run their applications off of the same hard disk.  
It is slow booting up, and some games won't work on the "old mac" accross 
Apple..., oops LocalTalk, but in general it works just dandy.  Hooking both 
macs to the same hard disc off of their SCSI ports is a no-no.

The only big problem is that you cannot run the same application on both
machines off of the same hard disc at the same time.  Works fine if you make
a copy of the application, and run that, but you can't open the same
application twice.

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