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From: warack@aero.ARPA (Chris Warack)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Mac Work Stations
Message-ID: <432@aero.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 18:36:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 18:36:05 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 05:57:57 EDT
Reply-To: warack@aero.UUCP (Chris Warack)
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[ouch]
We are studying the feasability of using Macs as work stations in the
office.  The main things we want are development with Symbolics
computers (available through ExperTelligence (R)); office automation
(Mac's forte -- word processing, charts, etc.); and communication with
other computers (???).

This last thing is the one we need information on.  What we would like
to see is a way to hook a Mac into an Ethernet; either through AppleTalk
or directly.  Has anyone had any experience with this?  Are there Ether
boxes for the Mac?  What kind of electronic mail, terminal emulation,
file transfer, and other distributed systems resources are there?

I'm also interested in any other methods for talking to Vaxen or
networks without using a dedicated modem.  Furthermore, what is the file
server picture at this time.

Our system would probalby consist of 512K - 1M Macs (or Jonathon's) with
a hard disk.

Please mail responses to me.  I'll summarize interesting information.
Thanks in advance,
Chris
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