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From: mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu (Mike Whitbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Apple Talk and Ethernet
Keywords: ATARI, networking
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Date: 15 Sep 88 21:54:55 GMT
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!	There are a couple (at least) of products out that allow you to
!connect an AppleTalk Network to Ethernet.  If you did have an AppleTalk
!compatible port on the ST you could then hook it to Ethernet.  Of course
!............   If you want Ethernet it is probably going to be
!cheaper to design something to run off the DMA bus instead of going
!through an AppleTalk to DMA converter.
!
!				Dan Moore

*Someone asked about ethernet for the atari ST. We (our group at Delft
*University) are currently inquiring about the German product. It is
*supposed to be used at the University of Aachen. I hope to hear from
*it next week. When I hear something, I will post it.

*Hans Buurman

So close yet so far...

BMB Canada made and sold (2?) "ST-network to-PC" dma boxes
called imaginet but the product is no longer available (I just
called 9/15/88).

There seems to be a German ethernet card but how do you get it?

MAYBE SOMEONE AT ATARI CAN SHED SOME LIGHT ON OBTAINING
NETWORKING FOR THE ST?????

maybe this is the kind of product for the entrepeneur (like
MagicSac?)
speaking of which .......
if you had a Spectre 128 AND a DMA-2-SCSI board could you then
run a MAC ethernet or appletalk?

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