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Re: A networking question from the 90s - Jimmypoo - 07-02-2011
mattkime wrote:
i think its actually a little bit more complicated than it used to be. one of those machines needs to have internet sharing turned on.
long live appletalk!
It doesn't need to have Internet sharing on - if one is in target mode.
And even then, it's just giving it a 169 IP, to share off the one it got from the Router/modem.
TargetMode is just going to give you a "disk drive" to hunt down your files and copy them over quickly -
no need to have it running with a GUI.
The only thing you'll probably have to do is authenticate some of the files you want to drag over with
a password. Target Mode via FW (or USB if they are both Intel) is the way I'd go.
Re: A networking question from the 90s - Jimmypoo - 07-02-2011
LocalTalk was great! Remember when modems made the big leap from 2400 baud to 9600 baud, but
LocalTalk was a blistering 230kbit/sec?? An entire 30KB per second! Why.... that would copy
a 40MB (MEGA-BYTE) drive in under 4 hours!!!
Re: A networking question from the 90s - freeradical - 07-02-2011
Jimmypoo wrote:
LocalTalk was great! Remember when modems made the big leap from 2400 baud to 9600 baud, but
LocalTalk was a blistering 230kbit/sec?? An entire 30KB per second! Why.... that would copy
a 40MB (MEGA-BYTE) drive in under 4 hours!!!
Networking out of the box - pretty cool actually.
Windoze users had to add a Token Ring card or something to get their machine on a network.
Heady days!
Re: A networking question from the 90s - olnacl - 07-02-2011
freeradical wrote:
Windoze users had to add a Token Ring card or something to get their machine on a network.
Heady days!
Oh Gawd, we had a token ring network at our old lab back in the 90s and I remember troubleshooting was like finding the one burned out Christmas tree light bulb in a series wired string.
Re: A networking question from the 90s - silvarios - 07-03-2011
mattkime wrote:
really? you don't need a machine handing out IP addresses?
To connect two Macs together? Nope.
Your router doesn't need to hand out IP addresses either. You can manually assign IP addresses to each device on your network quite easily.
Re: A networking question from the 90s - N-OS X-tasy! - 07-03-2011
olnacl wrote:
[quote=freeradical]
Windoze users had to add a Token Ring card or something to get their machine on a network.
Heady days!
Oh Gawd, we had a token ring network at our old lab back in the 90s and I remember troubleshooting was like finding the one burned out Christmas tree light bulb in a series wired string.
That's exactly was it was.
Re: A networking question from the 90s - freeradical - 07-03-2011
olnacl wrote:
[quote=freeradical]
Windoze users had to add a Token Ring card or something to get their machine on a network.
Heady days!
Oh Gawd, we had a token ring network at our old lab back in the 90s and I remember troubleshooting was like finding the one burned out Christmas tree light bulb in a series wired string.
I've also seen FDDI - although that was the backbone to string together a bunch of ethernet networks over a large area.