[Coco] drivewire suggestions

[Willard Goosey]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 08:33:30AM -0400, Steven Hirsch wrote:

> Are you sure your Performa doesn't have ethernet built-in?  On some of the 
> earlier models they had a "mini AUI" connector on the rear panel.  A 
> number of companies made adapters to convert this to RJ45.  

Unfortunately, yes, I'm sure.  ;-)  Actually, I have an AAUI
transciever in my box o' ethernet parts.  Some companies just can't
*stand* open standards, can they?

>You also have the alternative of a localtalk<-->ethernet bridge,

I'd prefer real ethernet. Besides, the proper ethernet card is cheap
(esp. the AAUI only Apple card).  I'm just horribly broke. :-(

>Macs (and the IIGS) used a Zilog SCC serial chip and spoke
>localtalk from the printer and/or modem ports.

Yep.  Localtalk is pretty cool.  Tandylink was the same thing for the
Model 4 and the T1000, except twice as fast.

> There are many flavors of Apple disk images.  Most are sector dumps.  The 
> low-level nibble dumps were for copy-protected games and were not common 
> anyway.

That's good.  A DW server wouldn't have to go through lots of hoops to
read them, and presumably most Apple II stuff would work just being
sent the sectors.

Willard
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