[Info-vax] An alternative history of computing

[gah4]

On Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 9:00:25 AM UTC-7, Galen wrote:
> > So, was there an Ethernet card for the Apple II?
> I don’t know specifically about the Apple II family, but there was an AppleTalk/Ethernet adapter for the early Macs, with some application(s) supporting file transfer via, perhaps, FTP. We used them with mixed results at Lockheed in Sunnyvale, until the corporate small desktop standard was abruptly switched to IBM PC. 

You mean a Localtalk-Ethertalk gateway like the GatorBox?  I might even still have one.
I was for a while working on school networking projects, and the schools had a lot
of Localtalk networked Macs.  

> Did any Apple II model support AppleTalk?

I think there was Localtalk for some, maybe with an add-in card,
but the later models might have it built in.  I believe the IIGS
has it built-in.

I think we did have a IIGS at one school, but I don't think I ever got
it on the network.  The school had a GatorStar that  I bought on eBay,
which by then were very cheap.  (GatorStar is GatorBox plus a
12 port LocalTalk hub.)  I think that would have allowed printer
access, and maybe file sharing.

We had Netscape 2.0 for a long time on the Ethernet LCII macs, as 
the later ones were too big.