LocalTalk

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Jeff Walther wrote:
> 
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:17:32 -0400
>>> From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: LocalTalk
>>
>>>
>>> Hi.  I'm looking for a LocalTalk->Ethernet bridge and some LocalTalk
>>> cables.  Anyone have any available?
>>
>> I don't have one available but the product names you are looking for 
>> include:
>>
>> AsantePrint
>> MicroAsanteprint
>> AsanteTalk
>>
>> in order from oldest to more recent.  All three of those were by Asante.
>> There were similar products from Farallon and Dayna, but I do not 
>> remember
>> the specific product names.  All of those will bridge from LocalTalk to
>> Ethernet, but I think they only bridge the AppleTalk protocols and not
>> TCP/IP.
> 
> Additionally, they likely will not support Apple 2 flavored AppleTalk. 
> Don't know if that's an issue or not.  The only bridges that seem to 
> work reliably for A2 networking are the Gatorbox and some firmware 
> revisions of the FastPath 4.  FastPath 5 boxes go through the motions, 
> but cannot seem to keep sessions alive with the Apple IIGS on one end.
> 
> For this A2 collector and enthusiast, it IS a big deal :-).

I definitely need to support both Mac an ][.  I was planning on getting 
it working in combination with a //e with a workstation card and a //c+ 
with its built-in LocalTalk to get them both on the Internet.

Peace...  Sridhar