25 Jun
2001
25 Jun
'01
3:05 p.m.
I've been drooling over the LanceGS card lately - gotta save up. What
makes the En-Link unusual is its apparent release date (1984), meaning
that it was specifically designed for the IIe (& II+ maybe?); the GS
wasn't released until 86 or 87 (IIRC). Maybe the fact that the card
cost almost as much as the computer it was designed for prevented
mainstream acceptance. Skimming the doco on the LanceGS, it looks like
that card is relatively new, having been released Sept last year.
Mike
http://tarnover.dyndns.org/
Tarnover - The Apple II Repository
Jim Strickland wrote:
THe LanceGS was the card I was refering to. I
don't know anything about
En-Link, but remember that when I was into Apple2s any mention of an
ethernet card was enough to make me salivate. Alas the lance GS came
out too late for me.
I found a couple of Apple II Ethernet project
sites with a quick Google
search:
http://aiiethernet.tripod.com/
http://lancegs.a2central.com/
http://www.apple2.org/AIIEthernet.html
I was hoping to be able to play with this card I found though. None of
the aforementioned sites mentions the En-Link. I get the idea that not
many of these things sold, or possibly, were even made.
Mike
http://tarnover.dyndns.org/
Tarnover - The Apple II Repository
Jim Strickland wrote:
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:
>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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