THe LanceGS was the card I was refering to. I don't know anything about
En-Link, but remember that when I was into Apple2s any mention of an
ethernet card was enough to make me salivate. Alas the lance GS came
out too late for me.
>
> I found a couple of Apple II Ethernet project sites with a quick Google
> search:
>
> http://aiiethernet.tripod.com/
> http://lancegs.a2central.com/
> http://www.apple2.org/AIIEthernet.html
>
> I was hoping to be able to play with this card I found though. None of
> the aforementioned sites mentions the En-Link. I get the idea that not
> many of these things sold, or possibly, were even made.
>
> Mike
>
> http://tarnover.dyndns.org/
> Tarnover - The Apple II Repository
>
>
> Jim Strickland wrote:
>
> > Just fyi, some bright spark in the apple2 world has created an
> > aftermarket ethernet board for the apple2 bus. If anyone's
> > interested enough I'll dig up the URL. If you have a GS,
> > they've got a driver for the Marinetti tcpip stack, too.
> >
> >
> >>On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Michael Maginnis wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Found a card in the local thrift store's '99-cent grab-box-o-cards',
> >>>labelled 'En-link Apple II Interface'. On the back is a rubber-stamped
> >>>'Protoype' label. A Google search turned up nothing - the only thing I
> >>>could find was an obscure reference to the board in my Softalk article
> >>>database:
> >>>
> >>>July 84, P 68
> >>>'Marketalk News'
> >>>
> >>>"An Ethernet-compatible interface that can make the Apple an intelligent
> >>>terminal in a local-area network has been manufactured by En-Link (4706
> >>>Bond Street, Shawnee, KS 66203; 913-268-6606). Utilizing current
> >>>standard LSI integrated circuits designed for Ethernet, the board
> >>>performs the necessary framing, retries, and error checking required of
> >>>the system. Other applications for the board include communication with
> >>>remote printers and terminals, $1,250. $750 each in quantities of 100
> >>>or more."
> >>>
> >>Damn! Bitchin find!
> >>
> >>Good luck finding the drivers though. Talk about obscure Apple II cards.
> >>Let us know if you ever come up with anything.
> >>
> >>Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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Jim Strickland
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