Re: Older Equiptment

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

Hans Sittler wrote:
> 
> Michael Hamblin wrote:
> 
> > A school with a large number of relic Apple II's would like to allow
> > students to do email but cannot purchase new equiptment.
> 
> This is pretty much my situation;  I have an offer of 15 Apple IIs
> from a local high school;  the possibility of using them as terminals
> to one reasonably fast Linux server is intriguing.

Take a look here:

<http://apng.edu.tw/gsh/ednet/index.htm>

They appear to be doing exactly that.  I checked for ethernet adapters
for Apple IIs; evidently Apple was developing one in the early '90s but
then scrapped the project.  I haven't found anything else.

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