Is there any Ethernet capabilities for Apple IIs?
There is no publically available Ethernet setup for any Apple II model. There are also rumors of an independently designed Ethernet board, but it’s not released. There were several models of Appletalk <-> Ethernet gateways that can be used to connect up Apple IIs to Ethernet networks for use in a mixed network of Apple IIs, Macs, PCs and unix boxes. Shiva’s FastPath 4 or 5 have been recommended as working well in this capacity. (Apple designed and made an ethernet card to be released at about the same time as GS/OS 6.0.1, but canned the project when they decided to try and write off Apple IIs as a bad memory, and shoved the cards produced in a warehouse or worse. Fewer than five of these cards are known to be owned by people outside of Apple. That’s very stupid, considering Apple could have made a nice profit on those things. Don’t ask me where to get one of those; I don’t know, and if I did, I’d get one for myself before telling any of you– Nathan 🙂 Tony Diaz has a web page up with
