![]() If you think you will be happy with AppleTalk, check out the consumer products offered by Farallon, Asante etc and find one that will work for you. Having half a connection is not satisfying. The LEM article misses lots of considerations - as soon as you get AppleTalk, you'll determine that you need TCP/IP as well. Surely it wouldn't be too hard with OS9 (and even some versions of X) supporting Appletalk Over Ethernet to build a simple pin connector and hooking it up (at least in my case) to an iMac's Ethernet port on one end an say, hmm, a Powerbook 5300c's Serial port? Feel free to connect any errors I may have made or anything that I may have overlooked.įor a basic overview, look at this article at Low End Mac: ![]() ![]() The whole reason I started this topic was because I wanted to try such a project with little to no spending whatsoever. ![]() I think perhaps someone should try building such an adapter. It's maybe an overkill solution, but it does the job. If you can't track down one of the bridge boxes (and some of them only supported printers, not computer-to-computer), getting a Mac with both ports and running Apple's Localtalk to Ethernet Bridge software works well. I did take a look at the Arduino as a possibility, but there are several deal breakers, including the Arduino's 115kbps serial speed limit, and the need to write a bloody huge Localtalk stack for it. I have seen plans to build localtalk adapters, and there are a number of different development boards that contain ethernet, but I've never seen the two meet in any DIY project. I had one of the Asante localtalk bridges, and it was pretty busy little box on the inside. If I recall correctly, it's not much more than a pin-to-pin, with the possible exception of having an isolation transformer if you want to play it safe.Įthernet to Localtalk is reasonably complicated, if only because one standard is using 4 wires, and the other, two wires. There's very little to a phone-net or localtalk connector, if my poor memory serves me correctly. ![]()
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