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- Subject: Re: Hooking a PC into an AppleTalk Network
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- From: hippo@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
- Date: 2 Sep 92 12:49:03 PDT
- References: <1SEP199216431380@zeus.tamu.edu>
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- In article <1SEP199216431380@zeus.tamu.edu> rpb0804@zeus.tamu.edu (BATES, ROBERT PATRICK) writes:
- >Subject: Hooking a PC into an AppleTalk Network
- >From: rpb0804@zeus.tamu.edu (BATES, ROBERT PATRICK)
- >Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:43:00 GMT
- >Howdy! I'm new to the group, and was just wondering if anyone knew of a quick
- >'n' dirty way to patch a PC into an existing AppleTalk network. The situation
- >is that our dorm has some Macs running on a homemade ATalk network running
- >AppleShare (?), but they would be willing to install TOPS if it would make
- >things any easier. I do know that there is a BIOS vector in PC's that is
- >addressed by ATALK.SYS and used by TOPS, but have no idea as to where/what/how
- >to secure hardware to make the connection as another node to the network.
- >
- >Thanks bunches!
- >
- >==============================================================================
- >Robert Bates Disclaimer:
- >rpb0804@zeus.tamu.edu "I make no claims..."
- >Texas A & M University
- >==============================================================================
- You can buy Farallon Phone net card. It's about $215 for the card and the
- software. It's cheap and dirty (It does not do every thing but it sort of
- works) I just read his morning that farallon is comming out with a new
- version you might want to wait. No need to buy Tops.
-
- Michel Davidoff
-