Subject: Re: Apple 2E with Linux?
From: Scott Alfter <salfter@ncc74656.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Date: 4 Jul 1999 03:42:33 GMT
Organization: USS Voyager NCC-74656, Delta Quadrant
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Message-ID: <7lml79$s9f$3@chakotay.ncc74656.org>
References: <7lgpb6$ce8$1@reggie.win.bright.net>
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 03:43:09 GMT


In article <7lgpb6$ce8$1@reggie.win.bright.net>,
John Jacobs <jjacobs@hager.net> wrote:
>I acquired my father's immaculate Apple 2e enhanced (circa 1988) and want to
>hook it up to my network at home. I have a Linux server and two windows
>machines, all on 10baseT ethernet.
>
>It doesn't sound like there's an ethernet card for an Apple 2e (is there?),
>so what network card would I use on  the Apple 2, and what would I use on
>the Linux server?

You wouldn't install a NIC in your IIe, unless you want to set up AppleTalk
between it and the Linux box.  That's overkill, IMHO.  If you don't already
have one, get a Super Serial Card and some comm software and hang your IIe
off a serial port on the Linux box.  Hack /etc/inittab to allow you to log
in over the serial port and you're done.  You can use protocol transfers
(ZMODEM, Kermit, etc.) to move files back and forth, and you can do anything
that you'd normally do from a shell prompt (since that's what you'll be
using).

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