On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 11:00:00 -0500
"Brian Mahoney" <brianmahoney_at_look.ca> wrote:
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> From: "Richard A. Cini" <rcini_at_optonline.net>
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> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:56 PM
> Subject: RE: Apple Computer Collecting
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> > "across eras" if I need to. The IIci is also connected to my home
> > network...
> How did you get the Mac on the network? Is it through your server somehow,
> as in 'services for macintosh'? Several of mine have some sort of
> connectivity, ie they have netscape or some browser, and I have two NICs.
> I'd love to get at least one on the internet through my lan. The last one I
> got has os8 so I figure it is probably the most suitable. Any tips or can
> you point to a site that will explain it in the layman's terms I need.
> Thanks!
> bm
>
I have had my Macintosh on the network using basic TCP/IP services and functions like FTP. In any post 7.0 MacOS it's trivial to get on a home network with TCP/IP. I also have a whole box of SCSI to Ethernet adapters that makes it easy to network Macs that don't have built-in ethernet, i.e. to network my Powerbook 165c. My SE/30 has a built in ethernet card in it's 'slot' (why people plug a video card in there is unclear to me, when there are tons of other Macs available these days with much better video for nearly free) I've never bothered to make any other element of the network talk in a native Apple protocol (i.e. Appletalk) but if you can get a Mac to 'browse the web' you can get it to talk to your home Unix/Linux/BSD boxes.
For archiving, I bought a SCSI CD Writer and hook that up to Macs. I keep it in an external case so it can plug into about any Mac. When I pick up a new (used) Mac one of the first things I do is image it's hard drive to a CDR. There are very good tools in the Mac sphere to image floppy diskettes and those image files get burned on CD, too.
Scott
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