15 Aug
2014
15 Aug
'14
7:19 a.m.
I'm fortunate to still have a working GatorBox so I just use MacIP with the
original, non-OT TCP/IP control panel and I'm off and running. I've got a 4
Meg Mac SE that will run Mosaic or NCSA Telnet, no problems :) My PB 180c
can even run SSH! NuBus machines and the Quadras connect directly in via
Ethernet, of course.
I know the Gatorboxes (or FastPaths) are very hard to find these days but a
friend of mine has had some success using one of the little cheapie Asante
Localtalk-to-Ethernet printer bridges just for the physical layer, then a
Cisco with an appropriate IOS image (supporting Appletalk) for everything
else. He's used this config to "successfully" run MacIP on (within the
bounds of available client software, LOL) and netboot a IIGS.
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Joe Cassara <joecassara at mac.com> wrote:
Hi Retro fans,
I have a cache of retro computers I wanted to grant access to the
internet. As we all know, utilities exist to open and send TCP sockets to a
serial port (Jim Brain's TCPSer is awesome), but getting them to work right
on a Mac can be challenging. So, I wrote my own:
http://cassarasoftware.com/serialtcp-for-mac/
It's rather bare bones at the moment, but gets the job done. I hope it
helps everyone looking to get their old stuff online!
? Joe