17 Jun
1998
17 Jun
'98
4:44 p.m.
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Paul E Coad wrote:
>
> As part of a deal I got a small pile of Mac nubus cards. My goal is
> to identify them and find them new homes before I need to get them
> shots, fixed, or they start reproducing in my closet like the 1200 bps
> modem cards seem to be doing.
>
> Farallon PhoneNET Card
> It has AUI and 10BaseT connectors. This one looks like an ethernet card.
> Is it?
It's basically an Appletalk type interface. Fast, serial over
phone wire.
Hah! Ya, Farallon had these nifty packages to let you integrate PC's/Mac's
in the same network. I once worked on one such network that used a Mac II
as the file server. Users with PC laptops who scanned tiff images in the
field had to upload to it. If I remember right, it was ~3 minutes to the
meg on the transfer. You can't believe how happy everyone was when I
replaced that Mac II with a 66mhz 486 running NT 3.51....
Yeah, but my Mac IIfx I rescued runs pretty close to a 486/25 in
usability... and probably a lot better than the NT3.51 in terms of
crashes.
I'm not a Windows hater... but NT ran like a pig on the 486/66's I ran.
Actually, the mac with ethernet performs pretty well with TCP/IP.
Bill
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