Looking for info - En-link Ethernet card for the Apple II

--- Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> wrote: I was writing software for the Apple ][ in 1984. We did not support the PC until very late in the company's life because there weren't enough of them in homes to make a difference (and before someone mentions it, that is _not_ why the company isn't around today - it was because Reader's Digest shut down their software division when the last founder died and returned our licenses to us and we weren't large enough to self-publish). In the workplace, the PC was three years old and was beginning to make inroads at large companies, but small companies still had Apple ]['s and CP/M cards (that's how our own boss did his books, for example). Besides, in 1984, most companies didn't have networks at all, let alone ethernet. It was too new and expensive. I worked at places after that with DEC minicomputers (VAXen and PDP-11s)... they used serial connections, with either DDCMP or perhaps Kermit! The first place I saw an ethernet was at Ohio State University. It was on some flavor of UNIX box, either a Sun or a Pyramid. As has also been mentioned here, Corvus was a significant player in the networking biz prior to 1984. In the Apple world, Localtalk dominated because so many of the later machines came with it. For the Apple ][, it was all about sneakernet. So I am actually surprised that anyone even made an Apple ][ ethernet card at all. The >$1,000 pricetag isn't surprising, given how much ethernet stuff cost in the old days. I also can't imagine there was much of a market. -ethan ===== Visit "The Seventh Continent" http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/