[vcf-midatlantic] Is it wrong to get excited??

[David Riley]

On Dec 30, 2015, at 20:54, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> 
> I just setup a Mac LocalTalk network, and I'm so thrilled and excited about
> it. Yes, it's only a Mac SE and an SE/30, each with 4mb of ram (the SE/30
> originally had 8 and the SE had 1, but I played the great equalizer!). Last
> year at VCFeX I picked up a couple of LocalTalk adapters, even though at
> that time, I had no use for them. In '09 at a flea market I had picked up
> the 25' sealed LocalTalk cable, but finally, it all came together.

A piece of advice: get some PhoneNet adaptors instead. They're readily available cheap on eBay, and they don't require the weird proprietary LocalTalk cable. They're how I did all my LocalTalk networks back in the day.

Next up: get a networked game of Bolo running. It runs really well on LocalTalk. Interesting fact: Bolo was written by Stuart Cheshire, eventually the architect of Rendezvous/Bonjour/IP Zeroconf.


- Dave