128K Mac ==> AppleTalk Controller

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1 total messages Started by Lonnie R. Abelbeck, AT&T Bell La... Thu, 21 Mar 1985 21:23

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Author: Lonnie R. Abelbeck, AT&T Bell La...
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1985 21:23

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How hard (expensive?) would it be to take an old 128K Mac logic board and
convert it into a smart RS-422 AppleTalk device controller?

The point is this, with AppleTalk you loose your printer port... it would
be sure nice if you could access a shared imagewriter on the network.  With
an old 128K logic board, you have the ports, SCC, 68000, and memory... just
add a power supply and replace a couple of RAM chips with ROM to bootstrap
the "smart" AppleTalk node, and walla.

Is anyone doing this, or am I overlooking an important point?

Lonnie Abelbeck
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