Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!labrea!Shasta!meldal 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) Hard mail: ERL 456 | Arpa: meldal@su-shasta.arpa Computer Systems Lab.| @shasta.stanford.edu Stanford University | @anna.stanford.edu Stanford CA 94305 | Uucp: ...decwrl!glacier!shasta!meldal USA | phone: +1 415 723 6027