4 Feb
2013
4 Feb
'13
10:38 a.m.
On Feb 4, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:01 AM, John Many Jars
<john at yoyodyne-propulsion.net> wrote:
I found it handy for a Mac SE, back in the day when an SE Ethernet
card cost an arm and a leg and one of these was lying around spare
for some reason. These days, unless I needed something else in the
SE expansion slot, I'd probably just go for that, because they were
going for about $30 last I looked (which was, to be fair, about 4
years ago).
If you want to attach a Mac Plus to any kind of modern network
without a seriously quirky LocalTalk bridge, it's pretty much your
only bet. Same applies to non-color Classics, which didn't have
expansion slots (the Color Classic line had LC-PDS slots). I can't
think of any other non-expandable Macs that didn't have Ethernet
built in. I suppose that's why it's "R at RE!!!!"; its market was
extremely limited, especially since there probably weren't loads of
Classic users trying to get onto Ethernet at the time.
- Dave
They had scsi<->ethernet adapters for Macs that didn't have expansion slots
I think Asante made them.
One of those just showed up on eBay this morning. Not something I
follow and I have no idea what a reasonable value is for one of these.
But it's "Rare!"