van_at_wired.com then Paul Braun said:
>
>> It will be an Ethernet LAN... but I don't have the details. Yet. So I
>> suppose I need to find a PDS Ethernet card for SE... (I believe it was
>> specific to the SE...?) Any clue where I might find one of those? That's
>> what I need, I believe.
>>
>I believe Asante made a scsi <> ethernet adapter. IIRC, the SE has the DB-25
>scsi port on the back. (I have an SE and an SE/30, but wouldn't ya know
>they're both downstairs along with my 128k, my Plus and my Classic)
>
>What I'm going to try is to PhoneNet/AppleTalk all my Macs together, and then
>run the NetWare client as well on my 7200 to give the ATalk network a gateway
>into the NetWare environment. Hopefully, everybody will get along. That
>way, I
>can also use my Duo and my Portable, which still works (although only on AC,
>since the battery's dead and I have other things to spend $90 on right now.)
>along with the old Macs. Kinda overkill for a private home, but what the
>heck. It
>doesn't have to be practical. "Just because I can" usually works for me.
I know nothing about Novell networks. WinNT4 might be off-topic, but a
WinNT4 box makes a great Mac accessory. Along with TCP/IP and other
protocols, it has Appletalk on it, and if you format a HD using WinNT4's
native format (I forget what you call it), it shares just like an Apple
disk. I've got a source of slightly overpriced used Apple ethernet cards
and an SE (my SE-30 has an Asante in it), I can check for you if you like,
might take a while for a physically compatible SE card to show up. I know
another source that had a whole pile of new SE Ethernet cards, but he may
have dumpstered them, by now (I will check, tho). The SE I have has a BNC
connector sticking out the back, but it's for Radius two-page display card;
I seem to recall a similar physical configuration for the SE Ethernet card,
tho. My DuoDock box has an old Apple II Ethernet card in it. All my Macs
from the SE30 through the hybrid Centris 610/601 PPC Upgrade Card (which is
running OS 8.1 and has run OS 8.5) all get along just fine on Ethertalk
with the WinNT box included. My next step is to either turn the SE30 into a
router, or get a router box (or both, I'm not sure what's needed there),
and implement TCP/IP protocol on the network, so that the older Mac stuff
(SE through 512k using phonenet) can all live on the same network. Possibly
use the WinNT box to gateway to the Internet, after I upgrade to the
dual-Pentium 90 motherboard I just acquired. If you have anything running
Appleshare 3.61 thru 3.64, upgrade them all to Appleshare 3.65 for more
compatibility. Older versions than that on older machines are okay as is.
"Recyclable" is the politically-correct term for "Garbage"
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