At 8:00 PM -0600 7/7/01, C Price wrote:
>As part of the stuff I received in an auction lot, I have found an item I am
>curious about. I am a Mac neophyte, being primarily accustomed to using
>PC's. I have two woking Mac's out of the auction lot. An SE that has been
>modified with a 130meg hard drive and only one 800k floppy, and 4 meg of
>RAM, The label on the back says it has 1 meg of RAM and two 800k floppies.
>The other is a Plus with one floppy. I'm running OS 6.0.8 on both of them
>and would like to get on the Internet with one or the other. How do I do
>that?
SEs came stock with 1M of RAM and either on 800K floppy and a HD or
two 800K floppies. A later version had a HD and a 1.44 M floppy. So
this one has had the memory upgraded and a HD swapped for one floppy,
a pretty common upgrade.
Both machines are capable of Internet access albeit limited
capability. Depending on the RAM / HD of the Plus it could be a toss
up. I would start with the SE simply as it's marginally easier to
work with the built in HD.
I would upgrade to OS 7.0 or even 7.5.3. The latter is free from
Apple and despite what some may say requires little more RAM. It
includes MacTCP (which can be had elsewhere). You will also need
MacPPP or such. A 14,400 modem its about the limit that is worth
using on these machines. E-mail would be practical, WWW is severely
limited though but can be done.
>
>The gadget I am curious about is a 1.5" X 2.5" X 1.25" box with the
>following:
>
>PhoneNET
> PLUS
>Farallon Computing
>Berkeley California
> on the bottom.
>
>It has a 10" cable ending in a 8 pin DIN connector on one end and the other
>end has two RJ11 receptacles, one of which has a RJ11 plug with a resistor
>in it. The resistor is brown,red, brown with a gold stripe on the far end.
>There is no serial number, model number or any other identifying marks on
>it.
>
>What is this gadget? Any help would be appreciated.
PhoneNet is a variant of Apple's LocalTalk. This is a 230.4 Kbps
network requiring only the LocalTalk or PhoneNET adapter, some cables
and whatever devices you wish to network (Macs, some printers, even a
pc with a LT ISA board). It's obviously slower than Ethernet but is
very inexpensive and easy to setup.
The RJ-11 plug with the 120 ohm resistor is a terminator. It acts
the same as the 50 ohm terminators do in a 10Base2 network. One is
needed at each end of the network. The MiniDIN connector plugs into
the Printer port of either of the above machines.
With Mac OS 7.0 or later (up to but not including OS X that is)
AppleTalk FileSharing is included letting you setup one or more Macs
as a file server. They can even serve files to Macs running earlier
versions of the OS.
>
>TIA
>Carl
>
>
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