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Tristam
@trist.am

Clearly you need to buy a second Mac, so you can forward the network connection over LocalTalk...

Peter Desnoyers
@pjdesno.bsky.social

Wow. That was released a few months after I left Apple to go back east. (our apartment building still hadn’t been repaired after the earthquake, among other things) The Mac II etc at the time supported NuBus Ethernet cards - I spent some time on the driver for the 3Com card. But…

Peter Desnoyers
@pjdesno.bsky.social

The LC only has a Processor Direct Slot, wired directly to the CPU pins. Someone on ebay has a PDS Ethernet card for sale, but they’re in the UK so it’s $30 shipping for a $30 purchase. Then of course you need to get from 10base-2 to 10base-T…

x256.bsky.social
@x256.bsky.social

Can’t believe it’s in as good of condition as that. You may want to nevertheless crack it open and check for leaking capacitors that may need replacing. There are also floppy emulators you can get so that you can load like hundreds of disks onto an SD card and have them ready for use.

pepper-jk
@pepper-jk.de

I lack the experience with that generation of tech, so I can not help. But I am really looking forward to seeing your journey exploring it. Keep it up. I hope you have lots of fun with this beautiful machine.

Phinp
@phinp.bsky.social

We used to annoy our lab manager by peeling the feet of the bottom of the monitor so it sat flush with the CPU unit... by sliding it forward backward at speed :-)

Caræsten 🇵🇸
@cara.city

many people have already said this haha but bluescsi is a lifesaver. I use one for networking on my Powerbook 170. that said: PDS Ethernet cards are not expensive at allllll. I got one for $50 or so on the Performa 630 I used to use. LC's are so cute I love them.

Xodium
@xodium.net

You can actually get a @bluescsi.com and do networking via SCSI, if you're not opposed to using modern drive emulators for stuff like this. I haven't messed with it personally yet but I've heard it gets the job done, at least!

At Packetlevel
@packetlevel2.bsky.social

I expect I can did up all the old Hypercard apps I made to manage all my work running / buying / fixing all the tech at the college long ago. Let mek know if you're interested. Hypercard rulz

David M
@beboxer.bsky.social

If you can't get a NIC for it then another option would be a LocalTalk to EtherTalk converter. I don't think that will get you a functioning TCP/IP stack though. My recollection of that era was that we had these standalone "FastPath" boxes that provided IP over AppleTalk back to the Mac's. 1/?

Peter Desnoyers
@pjdesno.bsky.social

Oh, wow, I forgot about AppleTalk. It's an HDLC-formatted serial protocol, I think 250kb/s, maybe documented in Inside Macintosh, using a Zilog 8530 and RTS/CTS collision avoidance. Standard UARTs (e.g. Pi) don't speak HDLC, but bit-banging (w/ existing libraries) should work at that bit rate.

Peter Desnoyers
@pjdesno.bsky.social

It should be on a PS/2-like connector somewhere on the back. I'm not sure where that gets you, though - you could talk to another old Mac or an AppleTalk printer, but I doubt there's a working version of the expired IP-over-AT internet draft. Finally I think you need System 7.5 to get MacTCP.

gimmecat666.bsky.social
@gimmecat666.bsky.social

Damn makes me want to try and find a good Apple 2e. It was the first computer I ever used in elementary school. I was a windows users most of my life but moving away from it the few years to macOS and Linux I hope you get this thing talking!

rj
@theinfamousrj.bsky.social

Okay but did Manhole have an ending? I need to search this up now. I remember playing it and feeling like I was going in circles. Maybe that was the point.