The first network we put together on small systems was in 1988: a LocalTalk net between a room full of Macs. Got even easier when Farallon Phone Net transceivers became available. As close to plug and playas you can get at the time. Soon afterwards, We networked the PCs with 3Com cards and used LocalTalk to Ethernet bridges to bring it all together. Good times On Sunday, January 3, 2016, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 1/3/2016 8:38 PM, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Can you **REALLY** call early PC networking (like arcnet) EASY?? It was SUCH a pain performing memory management.
Thats kind of what I meant, but as usual didn't clearly say... that Mac's networking was easier than PCs options of the same era, which weren't really easy. I implemented our companies first arcnet and it was a good project for an engineer, (and I wasn't necessarily and early adopter maybe 1988 or so?) but MAC users in art companies were connecting MACs together without fuss. That's how I remember it.