25 Jun
2001
25 Jun
'01
8:33 a.m.
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:
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Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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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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