Re: [NTLK] OT phoneNET ?

From: Simon Muller (smullers_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 01:50:36 PDT


When I got in contact with apples for the first time, back in the early
90s,
it was this Localtalk feature that blew my mind.
As a fanatic Amiga user, I was used to make floppies for everything I
wanted to use on another machine. Drinking lots of coffee while waiting
for format- and copy commands to be finished.
And here were machines that simply recognized each other, while
connected with a simple telephone wire!
It was fantastic, back then and still is now. All my old powerbooks and
desktop-machines are hooked up every now and again.

Simon Muller

On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 03:06 AM, Michael J. Hussmann wrote:
> You could use LocalTalk for virtually anything you would use a network
> for, including internet access. Back in the early 90s, we had a PhoneNet
> network running through a four story building -- actually there were
> three or four networks like this, in different buildings, all connected
> to an ethernet backbone. I could select a laser printer in a different
> AppleTalk zone (in a different building, about 5 kilometers away), so a
> co-worker in that building could fetch my paper from his local
> LaserWriter.
>
> And these networks were rock solid (if terminated properly).

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