>Well, I did it. i bought an iBook. With your kind help last month I
>determined that I will be best off with an ethernet PCMCIA card to transfer
>stuff from my 2400 to the new mac. (If you disagree, last chance to have
>your say! <g>)
Nope, you're definitely best off this way. Actually you're just about
only off this way. ;) It's not going to be that fast because of the
poor performance of file sharing over Appletalk, but it will work.
>So I am looking for one. Right now on eBay there are a bunch of new
>Farallon ones described like this:
>
>>NEW IN BOX - Farallon Model YPN595a-TP PCMCIA card to connect your PC or
>>Mac Lap Top
> >to 10 Base-T network. buyer pays shipping of $8.50
$8.50 US is a whole lotta shipping on something the size of a credit
card. Granted it's in the box, but it's still considerably more than
the likely actual cost unless you're shipping to or from Baffin
Island.
The PN595a card is perfectly good with the 2400, and generally a good
buy because it's also usable from just about any other OS that can
drive a PC slot (it has a fairly common SMC chipset inside). The
PN595 (no "a") is also good, though it may not perform quite as well
on other machines and OSes (it's an older 3com chipset, but the
2400's other bottlenecks would mask the difference). Either card
should go for around $15-30 US at this point. My 595a was $20 a few
months ago, and that's what I'd expect the bid to reach on the one
you mention (plus the nutty shipping).
Search for "Farallon PCMCIA" - some other sellers have the same card
in the same condition (new in the box) with lower shipping.
The one thing I don't like about the PN595a is the dongle, which ends
in a plug rather than a jack. However, in your case this will be
pretty much ideal for connecting to your iBook because the latter has
a nifty autosensing ethernet port that will automatically reverse
polarity. This means you won't require an extra cable or anything
else - the card and dongle will connect directly to the iBook. Drag
the Farallon extensions into the 2400's Extensions folder (no reboot
should be necessary), insert the card and select it in the Appletalk
control panel, plug the machines together, turn on filesharing on the
iBook (because it's the faster machine), mount it from the 2400's
Chooser, and drag away.
>http://www.drbott.com/prod/MPC100.html
>
>I guess this is better because it's faster? But it is a hundred bucks. and
>I really only need the thing to transfer stuff to my new Mac--probably just
>that one time in the beginning so I can have all my old email, etc on the
>new computer. I think I would rather be slow and cheap, EXCEPT of course
>there are no gauarantees on eBay!
It is a 100Base-T card, but it's unlikely to be appreciably faster in
the 2400 (or anything else with 16-bit PCMCIA, really). It does have
a good, common chipset and non-cardbus 100Base-T cards are fairly few
and far between, so even though it's a bit overpriced these days it's
still not a bad deal for someone who has a need for precisely this.
In your case it's really not worth paying the difference.
The HTML title on that page is apparently mistaken, btw, since the
specs say the card is 16-bit PCMCIA (ie. not Cardbus). Either this
card or the PN595a will work fine in an unmodified 2400.
--
Marc Sira | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"If you can't play with words, what good are they?"
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