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Ethernet interface card for Apple II [message #377486]

Wed, 05 December 2018 12:17

D Finnigan
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Found this while browsing thru InfoWorld last evening....

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Link Apples to Ethernet

En-Link is marketing an Ethernet interface for the Apple II that will permit
Apple owners to use the local-area network by adding a single circuit board
to a vacant card slot in the machine. The interface allows the computer to
perform independently, as well as use the file storage or printing
facilities of the network along with other computers.

Features of the interface board include 8K of RAM data buffer,
software-controlled interrupt modes and a program for file transfer. The
interface is available now from En-Link for $1,250.

En-Link, 4706 Bond, Shawnee, KS 66203; (913) 268-6066

InfoWorld April 9, 1984, p. 62

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Re: Ethernet interface card for Apple II [message #377500 is a reply to message #377486]

Wed, 05 December 2018 15:30

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martin.doherty@undisc
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> interface is available now from En-Link for $1,250.
> InfoWorld April 9, 1984, p. 62

Holy cow, that is $3,042 in 2018 dollars!!! That would pay for 43 Uthernet II cards at $70 each.

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Re: Ethernet interface card for Apple II [message #377515 is a reply to message #377500]

Wed, 05 December 2018 16:40

D Finnigan
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martin.doherty@undisclosed.com wrote:
>> interface is available now from En-Link for $1,250.
>> InfoWorld April 9, 1984, p. 62
>
> Holy cow, that is $3,042 in 2018 dollars!!! That would pay for 43 Uthernet
> II cards at $70 each.
>

Yeah! I'm also interested to know what the file transfer program was like,
and what protocol it used.

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Re: Ethernet interface card for Apple II [message #377553 is a reply to message #377486]

Thu, 06 December 2018 03:47

Anonymous

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Originally posted by: James Davis

On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 9:17:54 AM UTC-8, D Finnigan wrote:
> Found this while browsing thru InfoWorld last evening....
>
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
> Link Apples to Ethernet
>
> En-Link is marketing an Ethernet interface for the Apple II that will permit
> Apple owners to use the local-area network by adding a single circuit board
> to a vacant card slot in the machine. The interface allows the computer to
> perform independently, as well as use the file storage or printing
> facilities of the network along with other computers.
>
> Features of the interface board include 8K of RAM data buffer,
> software-controlled interrupt modes and a program for file transfer. The
> interface is available now from En-Link for $1,250.
>
> En-Link, 4706 Bond, Shawnee, KS 66203; (913) 268-6066
>
> InfoWorld April 9, 1984, p. 62

Since you didn't post a internet link, I take it you were looking at the real magazine (advertisement)!

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