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From: meldal@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Sigurd Meldal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: VAX <--> Mac
Message-ID: <1102@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 00:38:31 EST
Article-I.D.: Shasta.1102
Posted: Fri Jan  9 00:38:31 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Jan-87 22:47:37 EST
References: <523@lsrhs.UUCP>
Reply-To: meldal@Shasta.UUCP (Sigurd Meldal)
Organization: Stanford University
Lines: 33
Keywords: VAX, Ultrix, Mac, AppleTalk
Summary: Kinetics makes Mac<->ethernet boxes & software

In article <523@lsrhs.UUCP> schmidt@lsrhs.UUCP (chris schmidt) writes:
>I am managing a VAX 11/780 and will be acquiring 10+ Mac plusses inside the
>first half of this year.  I need to find a way to hook the VAX to AppleTalk
>(or another network) so that the Macs can share it's disk system and general
>beefiness.  

You may want to check out Kinetics' FastPath and EtherSC boxes. One is a
2500$ (list) gateway between AppleTalk and EtherNet (up to 32(?) Macs), the
other is a Mac->EtherNet 1250$ (list) connector (incl. transceiver). They have
software for terminal emulation and for making the UNIX host appear as a
Mac desktop (!), with every host a disk-like entity (i.e. you copy files
from host to host by click-and-drag, etc).

CENTRAM is using these boxes with their TOPS network, you may want to check
into that as well.

The address: Kinetics inc.
	     2500 Camino Diablo, Suite 110
	     Walnut Creek, CA 94596

	     ph: (415) 947 0998

Sigurd Meldal

(who got this from talking to a person at the MacWorld Expo)

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