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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting two computers to talk to each other
Date: 1 Feb 2014 17:08:30 GMT
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On 2014-02-01, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2014.01.30, 08:13 , Lewis wrote:
>> In message <300120140958183018%timstreater@greenbee.net>
>>    Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>>> In article <-u2dnf2PD4kFLHTPnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
>>> <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> More than 20 years ago it was pretty easy to connect a number of Macs
>>> on a LAN using AppleTalk. I don't know what the nameless one is
>>> bleating about.
>>
>> Hell, you could easily network the original Mac 128K. Just plug it in to
>> a chain of other Macs and VOILA! a LAN appeared as if by magic.
>
> I was a member of the other faith at the time.

I was still doing Basic/Zilog Assembly programming on TRS-80s back then
and the experience of using Apple's LocalTalk networking on Macs was
magical compared with other networking solutions available for other
platforms at the time.

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