From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Sat Sep 21 2002 - 22:16:16 PDT
on 22/09/02 00:32, Ed Kummel at tech_ed_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Aaagh! LocalTalk boxes! Keep them away...keep them
> away!!!! Those things are almost as hideous as AUIs!
> I think you can find those defined in ancient mac
> devices of torture (along side with the chapter on
> SCSI VooDoo!)They were Apple's claim to Networking
> (Apple claimed that every Mac owner who had a printer
> had a home network running in their house) This
> allowed older macs to talk along telephone wire
> (imagine a home network in a 5 level townhouse with
> phone cabling running up and down the stairs) File
> transfers occured as a whopping 230KBPS (about 10
> times slower than 10BaseT ethernet)
> They aint much good without the termination resistors
> anyway!
> Ed (Happy October Fest!)
> web/gadget guru
> come and see my Newt on the web (well, mostly) at:
> http://65.84.243.167
Well, they were still considered a network, since you could use them to do
file and printer sharing. Back then, AppleTalk was the largest network in
use. Sure, there was Ethernet back then, but how many people back in the 80s
were running their own Ethernet network at home?
-Laurent.
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