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Re: Geoport on the Macintosh Performa 630?

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From: Jean-Noel Moyne
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:08
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In article <40elkh$s27@ra.isisnet.com>, dgreen@isisnet.com wrote:

> >I don't have an answer, only wanted to indicate that I would be
interested in 
> >the answer too.  Specifically, I'd be interested in hooking up a small
LAN at home
> >to connect my OS/2 Warp machine, my wife's Mac IIcx, an ISDN TA/NT1/Router(?)
> >and a printer with built-in Ethernet.  So far, we've got the computers
and an 
> >Ethernet card for the PC; I'm holding off purchasing anything else until I
> >a) have more money :^) and b) have an idea what will actually work.

An Ascend 50 would work very well for you. Both of your machines could
share the connection to the internet provided by the Ascend, and it would
come up and down transparently according to the traffic.

It's a little pricey still (about $1500), but it works great !

   JNM
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From: jnmoyne@lanminds.com (Jean-Noel Moyne)
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Subject: Re: Geoport on the Macintosh Performa 630?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 17:08:26 -0700
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