11 May
1999
11 May
'99
12:25 p.m.
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 23:13:35 EDT
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Mac II stuff needed/wanted
In a message dated 5/11/99 10:00:40 PM US Eastern
Standard Time,
roblwill(a)usaor.net writes:
> I'm trying to set up a basic peer-to-peer network between my P200, a P70,
well, any mac II series will need a nubus NIC. If most
of the NICs have the
bnc (coax) connector, you'll have to get the same for the mac. Good thing is
that coax NICs (10base2) are easier to find since they are older. I was
lucky to find a combo NIC for my IIsi.
Networking is wonderful tool to use but works very well if you have
hot plugging capiblity which TP does. Hub if you want more than
2 machines connected up. Coax one
take the still connected T connector off the machine possible but I
don't know if that is good to have exposed pin and dunno how signal
quality would affected by this?
I do that all the time with homemade crossed TP cable on my machines
to transfer data and backup data to fix something and reload stuff
back on. AND, keep using that machine to surf the net while data
is shuffling between 2 machines (isolated) If you have 16bit card set
for irq that is for 8bit bus, it will slow down the data flow. :)
To be honest, I prefer TP and hub stuff.
Wizard