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From: carlitz@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Robert D. Carlitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: communicating via appletalk
Keywords: appletalk, bulletin boards, communications
Message-ID: <22323@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 90 04:00:17 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Computing & Information Services
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I have been working on putting together a telecommunications setup for a
local elementary school.  We are working with a classroom that has 15 or
20 Apple II's (ranging from II-e's to II-GS's) with a variety of floppy
disks and a single Mac with a hard disk.  What I would like to do is run 
a bulletin board on the Mac and let children log onto the bulletin board 
from the various Apple II's.  Access to the outside world would be
achieved via the bulletin board program.  Is this feasible?  Specifically, 
are there communications programs that can run on the Apple II and use 
Appletalk rather than a serial port?  And, for that matter, are there 
bulletin board programs that accept logins from machines on Appletalk?  
Documentation of Appletalk for the II-GS's is so sketchy as to give no
hint of what possibilities exist beyond simple print and file servers.

Bob Carlitz	carlitz@unix.cis.pitt.edu	(Internet)
		pitt!unix.cis.pitt.edu		(uucp)