WTB: Apple II Workstation Card

drlegendre . drlegendre at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 01:52:50 CST 2016


Mark,

Best as I can tell, the card(s) I have/had around here aren't either of the
type you've indicated.

At the time, I wasn't able to ID them either.. and in one of those
"moments", I think I shite-canned the lot of them - only keeping one as an
example. Please forgive me, Apple friends.. =)

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:

>
> > On Dec 19, 2016, at 9:55 PM, drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Nope, wrong stuff. The cards I have/had used a pair of DB-9 connectors on
> > the rear panel - IIRC..
> >
> > I was told they were for "localtalk" but I know virtually nothing about
> > Apple II-era hardware.
>
> The boards you describe sound like they might be the older Apple II
> AppleTalk II boards, as pictured here:
>
> http://www.applefritter.com/content/can-anyone-tell-me-
> history-apple-ii-appletalk-ii-interface-card-a2b2080-i-have-photos-attach
>
> I don't understand yet how the functionality of the AppleTalk II vs.
> Workstation Card products differ. I would blindly speculate that the
> AppleTalk II cards might have used the same AppleTalk connector box dongle
> that the earliest Macintosh computers used?
>
> --
> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> http://www.nf6x.net/
>
>


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