Farallon Phonenet PC card available

[briand...@gmail.com]

It's hard to judge whether anyone is really interested in these
anymore, but I have one of the original Farallon 8-bit ISA Phonenet PC
cards available. This has the 65SC02 controller and includes the
phonenet dongle off the 9-pin port.

I hung on to this for many years because I thought I might use it, but
that never happened. I don't have a compatible setup right now so I
can't test it, but it's in good condition and I have no reason to
believe it doesn't work; I'm willing to sell it with a "no DOA" refund
clause. As I said it's not really clear if/what demand is like, so
make an offer. If needed I've also got the matching phonenet dongle
for a Mac (with the round serial port), but I don't have any
terminators (they usually ran fine without them in a pinch).

Please reply to email, I don't monitor this group.

Thanks,
--
Brian

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

briand...@gmail.com wrote:
> It's hard to judge whether anyone is really interested in these
> anymore, but I have one of the original Farallon 8-bit ISA Phonenet PC
> cards available. This has the 65SC02 controller and includes the
> phonenet dongle off the 9-pin port.

About 10 years ago I was interested in a card like that as part
of an elementary school network project. I believe I was
looking for a TOPS card, maybe similar but different.

I then found that I could get Gatorbox and even better GatorStar
boxes for very cheap, which worked well. NT server includes
ethertalk, and the gatorbox would route that through to localtalk.

I was also buying used ethernet cards for the LC2 and similar
machines to get them onto ethernet and off localtalk.
AsantePrint boxes were used to connect printers, though
some also went through the GatorStar.

But that was about 10 years ago. Now that Apple doesn't hasn't
supported localtalk on their machines for some years now,
ethernet (ethertalk) is the way to go. I believe the GatorStar
boxes were lost when the school district upgraded the whole
system, but I still have one Gatorbox. I also might still
have some Farralon StarControllers. (12 or 24 port localtalk
repeaters, without routing.)

-- glen