Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-04-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
Localtalk adapters would typically convert from RJ11 to LocalTalk. I suppose you *could* daisy chain a bunch of straight up local talk connectors but the length would have been severely limited. What Ethertalk did was allow you to transport LocalTalk over twisted pair phone wire. Bob S > On

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-04-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
Exactly what I did except it was The Word For Today radio program. those Farallon hubs could be pissy, and you had to terminate every connection as I recall because it was a star configuration. Bob S On Mar 27, 2015, at 15:27 , stephen barncard mailto:stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com>> wrote:

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-04-01 Thread kee nethery
Or if they have RJ11 phone jacks, PhoneNet connectors. Kee > On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Localtalk connectors. > > Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubsc

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/28/2015 3:18 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote: I went to the building supervisor who was avery cool guy and asked if i could run some phone wire down the pipes What a great story! Made me smile. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-28 Thread Jeff Reynolds
I was in grad school at Berkeley in the 80s and our department went mac crazy fast (yes i helped this along greatly!). Getting folks to sink thousands in to a apple laserwriter was hard, but I was able to convince a couple of labs that had one to share if other labs would buy cartridges and main

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-27 Thread stephen barncard
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Localtalk connectors. At A&M in the late 80s and early 90's I set up a very expensive Farallon rack-mounted hub with plug in cards. And the first card was a localtalk hub with each computer home-run'd to the hub rather than daisy chained. La

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/27/2015 3:39 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Localtalk connectors. Oh right. That. It's been ages. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailin

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
Localtalk connectors. Bob S > On Mar 26, 2015, at 11:41 , J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Okay, so do any of you want some of the dozens of SCSI cables I have? How > about a whole set of...whatchacallit... the dealies that connect a local > network over telephone wires. Got a ton of those. > > >

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Marian Petrides MD < mpetri...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Gotcha all beat. I still have my Apple ][+ (purchased 4/4/1980) and it > still works—did a power supply transplant 20 years ago. Plus three Apple ][ > GSs—two work, one is parts for the others. > Well, that's

RE: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Erik Beugelaar - Gmail
26 maart 2015 21:14 To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive On 3/26/2015 2:09 PM, Richmond wrote: >> > If you happened to have a SCSI-to-USB cable . . . > > Or one of those USB-to-ADB+SCSI for iMac things . . . Sorry, tho

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/26/2015 2:09 PM, Richmond wrote: If you happened to have a SCSI-to-USB cable . . . Or one of those USB-to-ADB+SCSI for iMac things . . . Sorry, those I don't have. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperact

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/03/15 20:41, J. Landman Gay wrote: Okay, so do any of you want some of the dozens of SCSI cables I have? How about a whole set of...whatchacallit... the dealies that connect a local network over telephone wires. Got a ton of those. If you happened to have a SCSI-to-USB cable . . . Or

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Okay, so do any of you want some of the dozens of SCSI cables I have? How about a whole set of...whatchacallit... the dealies that connect a local network over telephone wires. Got a ton of those. On 3/26/2015 12:55 PM, Marian Petrides MD wrote: Gotcha all beat. I still have my Apple ][+ (pur

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/03/15 19:38, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Was rummaging through boxes of stuff looking for something when I came across a few ADB keyboards and mice. Thought to myself, 'it's about time to turf these, no one, not even Richmond, could possible want

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Marian Petrides MD
Gotcha all beat. I still have my Apple ][+ (purchased 4/4/1980) and it still works—did a power supply transplant 20 years ago. Plus three Apple ][ GSs—two work, one is parts for the others. And, of course, my 512K Enhanced Mac (Fat Mac), which also works. And a bunch of newer Macs, LC 2, gumdr

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > Was rummaging through boxes of stuff looking for something when I came > across a few ADB keyboards and mice. Thought to myself, 'it's about time to > turf these, no one, not even Richmond, could possible want them'. Seems > like I could be wron

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I have an old Mac SE, which I can connect to the serial port of an old Performa, which has ethernet, and which lets me surf the net on my SE. It is kind of a hassle and I didn't think it was that interesting. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engin