Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site aero.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!aero!warack 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 Article-I.D.: aero.432 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) Organization: The Discordian Society Lines: 33 [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 -- _______ |/-----\| Chris Warack (213) 648-6616 ||hello|| || || warack@aerospace.ARPA |-------| warack@aero.UUCP |@ ___ | {seismo!hao | tektronix}!hplabs \ |_______| !sdcsvax - !sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!aero!warack || || \ Aerospace Corporation, PO Box 92957, LA, 90009, Station M1-117 ^^^ ^^^ `---------(|=