MacEthernet (Was: RE: APPLEVISION Monitor)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Apr 30 22:05:12 2002

I'll keep an eye out for the SCSI<=>e'net box. Adaptec made a "NODEM" that
was essentially that same thing.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas H. Quebbeman" <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
To: "ClassicCmp List" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 6:44 PM
Subject: MacEthernet (Was: RE: APPLEVISION Monitor)


> Dick said:
>
> > One thing that I've wondered is how one gets an old MAC to talk on the
> > Ethernet when it's a mixed environment with Netware and Windows NT
> servers. I
> > know Netware has a provision for MAC namespace, but I've only seen one
> > ethernet-capable MAC, which leaves me wondering how folks who use MACs
> install
> > an ethernet interface.
>
> Nuvolink made a box, SCSI interfaced Ethernet, 10-base-2 and AUI.
> The Quadra 700 was a slight modification to the Mac IIci.
> The IIci didn't have Ethernet; the Q700 did. The IIci was a
> 1990 machine. Q700 was probably late '91 or early '92.
> Not sure therefore what you mean by "old". May have been
> e-net boards that clamped down on the 68k chip like the
> hard drive upgrades and the 1st Radius FP display, but
> once SCSI was in place, you had that. But shortly thereafter
> you have e-nat on (almost) every Mac.
>
> -dq
>
>
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