On 3 May 2007, at 20:37, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Luis wrote:
"Well, you could use the Mac as a USB server..."
Umm . . . and how would I go about assigning IP
addresses to the USB ports?
No, you don't have to do that. Mind you, what I suggest is untested,
although I have used it to pipe serial:
Pipe the USB stream to the ethernet port. This would be done via the
shell.
Not sure if you'd need to send a signal to the cam to start streaming.
And then you'd have to figure where in /dev the USB cam is sitting...
and:
"I don't know what exactly you mean by old Mac
printer/modem. Do you mean ADB or parallel/serial?"
I mean Serial.
It was perfectly possible to connect 2 pre-PPC Macs
together with a cable that connected the 2 printer
ports.
Ah, you mean the ADB 'serial', with AppleTalk for the protocol.
No USB I gather...
Although an ADB to USB adapter might get you there.
PCI? Could grab some NICs from Ebay. If they're NuBus.... That's a
little trickier.
I had a couple of the old dongles for ethernet lying around (for my
IIci). If your Macs are that old I'll try to look for them.
Failing that, there is another option:
Strap a scanner to one of the older Mac monitors (scanner plugged
into your Mac Mini).
Convert the data you want to send from the old Mac into a stream
displayed on the monitor.
Read the data into the Mac Mini from the scanner and perform the
appropriate conversion.
Don't sneeze.
Cheers,
Luis.
What I would like to do is be able to connect a few
tatty, old Macs I have lurking in my attic in Scotland
to my PPC Mac Mini when I go over there in the summer.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
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