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**Micheal** @micheal@ecliptik.com · Apr 15

Think I finally cracked using jrouter, tashtalk and netatalk together to work with netatalk and #globaltalkk

- Separate systems for netatalk and tashtalk
- tashtalk and jrouter can be on the same system
- tashtalk and jrouter must use unique MAC addresses
- tashtalk uses tap interface on a network bridge
- jrouter uses network bridge
- netatalk uses network bridge
- netatalk atalkd.conf set to autodiscover on network bridge
- jrouter is a seed router, netatalk and tashtalk are non-seed routers
- Startup order is: jrouter, netatalk, tashtalk, clients

I tried many things to consolidate down to a single RaspberryPi, but even with adding a USB NIC for jrouter/tashtalk and netatalk on the internal NIC things still wouldn't work 100%.

Packets were somehow "eaten", which was odd because the AppleTalk zones would show up in Chooser, but the netatalk file server wouldn't, or when it did it could give an error when trying to connect to it.

#localtalk #livelaughlocaltalk #raspberrypi #retrocomputing #vintagemacs

**N95 subnet mask** @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social · Feb 8

Feb 8

N95 subnet mask @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social

#Free to a good home: A bunch of Digital Ocean Grouper wireless LocalTalk networking units. Three 100LT units with four batteries and AC adaptors. Includes manuals, warranty cards, and software on floppies.
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #LocalTalk #AppleTalk #Wireless

Some computer hardware and manuals splayed out on a linoleum floor. There are three dark grey rectangular units with small rectangular displays on them, some white wrapped batteries with pigtails, three beige units to clip to the sides of the gray ones, two black AC adaptors and two white boxes the same size as the AC apators. Two coiled cables with mini-DIN connectors are the same gray as the largest units. Below that are some spiral bound manuals with blue covers, four floppies with blue labels, and some black on white quick start cards with diagrams.

A closeup of four batteries with pigtails (they appear to be 4 AA cells wrapped in white), the left side of three of the dark grey units, showing mounts on the sides and the tiny blank displays. There are also some U-shaped mini-DIN connectors and thumb screws in a ziploc bag.

Some spiral bound manuals and a US letter-sized (stapled with rusty staples) manual. With a blue and green cover: Grouper By Digital Ocean The Owner's Manual 100LT. Light blue on white: Wire-Free Networking with Grouper. In blue: Grouper Administrator's Manual. Printed in black on white paper and stapled: Wire-Free Networking With Grouper. And a stained Quick Start Card for the Grouper 100LT. The edges of two floppies and a gray cable can be seen in the corners.

A spiral bound blue-covered Grouper Administrator's Manual next to warranty cards from DIGITAL OCEAN INC in Lenexa Kansas, a stained Quick Start Card with a diagram of the components of the 100LT, four gray floppies with blue labels. Three are Grouper User Suite V2.0.1 and one is Grouper Admin App V1.3.

**N95 subnet mask** @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social · Jan 15 *

Jan 15 *

N95 subnet mask @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social

EDIT: 15 remaining.

#Free to a good home: Twenty Farallon PhoneNET Plus transceivers. I'm giving these away in fives, shipped via USPS flat rate.

Four groups of five Farallon PhoneNET Plus transceivers (small gray boxes with rounded corners, two phone jacks on one side, and a short cable ending in a male mini-DIN connector) on a wood floor. Some are yellowed and the Farallon logotype can be made out through the glare on the shiny plastic.

A closeup of five PhoneNET Plus connectors with a few more in the unfocused background. The phone jacks are visible in the foreground and one transceiver is heavily yellowed. Each one has PhoneNET PLUS Farallon Berkeley, CA Patent pending molded into the plastic.

#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers

**N95 subnet mask** @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social · Jan 15 *

Jan 15 *

N95 subnet mask @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social

EDIT: All gone.
#Free to a good home: I have 40 Farallon PhoneNET transceivers. For my own sanity, I'd like to give them away in fives, shipped USPS flat rate.
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Network #LocalTalk #Farallon #PhoneNET #RJ11

Forty PhoneNET transceivers (small gray ridged boxes with a short mini-DIN cable on one end and two phone jacks on the other) arrayed on a wood floor in groups of five. Some are faded or yellowed.

A photo of a USPS flat rate shipping box (white cardboard with blue and red print) next to five groups of five PhoneNET connectors. They are shot from an angle that makes the phone jacks on them clearly visible.

A closeup of a Caucasian hand holding a PhoneNET transceiver to present the phone jacks to the viewer. Four contacts are clearly visible in both of them and the male min-DIN plug can be seen in the background.

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**paulrickards** @paulrickards@mastodon.social · May 8, 2024

May 8, 2024

paulrickards @paulrickards@mastodon.social

The way it works is this:

1. A print is initiated from a device to the CUPS-PDF driver on my #netatalk Raspberry Pi.
2. The resulting PDF is placed in the AFP share of netatalk/afpd.
3. An emulated PPC Mac 9.2.2 running the #AppleScript below is watching for new files in that folder and will print them using Acrobat Reader to the #ImageWriterII via #LocalTalk using the MacPalette II driver.

It works, but crashes with dialog that I can't auto-dismiss.

Description:
An AppleScript that runs continuously watching a folder for any new items. It prints the ones it finds and moves them to the trash.

AppleScript:
property currentFiles : {}
property runinterval @ 5 - - in seconds
global folderSpool
set folderSpool to "MaclPpi DISK:Print:" as alias
repeat
tell application "Finder”
activate "Finder”
type text return
open folderSpool
set currentFiles to files of folderSpool as list
repeat with i from 1 to count of currentFiles
set theFile to item i of currentFiles
if size of theFile » O then
delay 10.0
print theFile
type text return
delete theFile
repeat with j from 1 to 15
type text return
delay 2.0
end repeat
delay 5
end if
end repeat
close folderSpool
end tell
delay runlnterval
end repeat

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac

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**paulrickards** @paulrickards@mastodon.social · May 5, 2024 *

May 5, 2024 *

paulrickards @paulrickards@mastodon.social

With netatalk, a TashTalk hat, TashRouter, and CUPS on the Raspberry Pi, we can do clever things like share a #ImageWriter II printer over #LocalTalk with an iPhone using AirPrint!

This screenshot was printed from my phone to the ImageWriter II.

Interestingly, this was just fixed in the latest netatalk 2.3.2!

Photo of an ImageWriter II with sheet feeder attachment on top. A print is sitting on top of a screenshot from iOS maps of the Apple Campus in Cupertino. The plastic on the printer is various shades of beige, yellow, and gray.

Screenshot of iOS maps of the Apple campus.

#LiveLaughLocalTalk #RetroComputing #VintageApple

**paulrickards** @paulrickards@mastodon.social · Apr 28, 2024 *

Apr 28, 2024 *

paulrickards @paulrickards@mastodon.social

I’ve been rebuilding a #RaspberryPi installation that supports my classic Mac habit

I used to use the awesome #MacIPGW image which includes a ton of pre-configured software like #netatalk. But it hasn’t been updated in a while so I used it as excuse to start from scratch.

I used this Pi Zero W as my starting point. HDMI video stopped working on it for unknown reasons. I added an Ethernet/USB hub hat and a #TashTalk 2 hat for #LocalTalk devices.

A stack of three small circuit boards stacked together with three cables plugged into them. A Pi Zero W is on the bottom in green, an Ethernet and USB hub is in the middle in blue, and a TashTalk 2 hat on top in purple.

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac

**N95 subnet mask** @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social · Mar 12, 2024

Mar 12, 2024

N95 subnet mask @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social

Ethernet killed the LocalTalk Star!
Here's a Farallon PhoneNET StarController, #free to a good home! Includes the AC adapter.
#LocalTalk #GlobalTalk #Retrocomputing

The end with the lights and centronix port, with the STATUS and QUALITY lights illuninated in green. A cable and AC adaptor plugged into an outlet are visible and out of focus in the background.

**N95 subnet mask** @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social · Mar 12, 2024

Mar 12, 2024

N95 subnet mask @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social

Do you want your #wireless #LocalTalk network to be period correct? Here's a Digital Ocean Starfish II from 1996. #Free to a good home!
#Retrocomputing #GlobalTalk

A dusty black plastic box with a colorful starfish and Starfish II printed on it. A stylized DO and Digital Ocean in the bottom right corner, lights labeled RF POWER, TRANSMIT, RECEIVE, STATUS, TX, RX, COLLISION, and LINK. Labels for the ports on the end are at the bottom, from left to right: POWER, AUDIO, 10BASET, AUI, RS232 PORT A, ans RS232 PORT B. A large power brick is lying next to it on a wood floor.

The narrow end of a black plastic case with ports along it. A six-pin white male port, a port that looks like a phone receiver jack, an ethernet port, an AUI port, and two RS-232 ports. Rubber feet can be seen on the bottom.

The bottom of a black plastic case with four rubber feet, four screws holding it together, and two silver screws to mount it. A silver label with copyright and FCC information is at the bottom. Starfish II, copyright 1996, DigitalOcean. Made in USA.

**N95 subnet mask** @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social · Mar 12, 2024

Mar 12, 2024

N95 subnet mask @sharewarewolf@bitbang.social

Six #LocalTalk transceivers, #free to a good home. Five from Farallon and one from AESP that has activity lights. Two of them have terminators.
#Marchintosh #GlobalTalk

Six grey, ribbed boxes with short cables to mini-DIN connectors and pairs of phone jacks. One has two LEDs on it and two have a little ring protruding from one of the phone jacks.

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**dan** @billgoats@bitbang.social · Feb 2, 2024

Feb 2, 2024

dan @billgoats@bitbang.social

@paulrickards Okay, here you go! Made a quick pair of #HyperCard stacks to show a queue counter over #LocalTalk.

The script to choose the display:

on mouseUp
global RepairsMac
answer program "Where is your Repairs Display?"
put it into RepairsMac
end mouseUp

And to increment:

on mouseUp
global RepairsMac
put cd fld "RepairsServing" into temp
add 1 to temp
put temp into cd fld "RepairsServing"
send "put "&temp&" into cd fld Display" to program RepairsMac
end mouseUp

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**paulrickards** @paulrickards@mastodon.social · Oct 22, 2023

Oct 22, 2023

paulrickards @paulrickards@mastodon.social

The #AppleLisaClone printing from MacWrite over LocalTalk to a HP LaserJet. Still amazed this all works!

Screenshot of MacWrite showing a document that says “Hello from the Lisa 2/5 running MacWorks Plus” along with many cowdogs at the top and bottom of the page (moof!). A print dialog box is open on top for the LaserWriter driver.

A messy desk with a pile of large green circuit boards to the right of a #AppleLisaClone. In the back is a makeshift display showing a MacWrite document. In the foreground is a letter sized printed page from MacWrite that says “Hello from the Lisa 2/5 running MacWorks Plus” along with many cowdogs at the top and bottom of the page (moof!).

#RetroComputing #moof #LocalTalk

**paulrickards** @paulrickards@mastodon.social · Jun 6, 2023

Jun 6, 2023

paulrickards @paulrickards@mastodon.social

Anyone know if these TurboNet ST PhoneNET adapters require the use of terminators? I thought I remember reading they were built in but maybe not. I’m getting mixed results.

A TurboNet ST PhoneNET adapter, all black with two red LEDs on top and two RJ-11 jacks.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple

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**paulrickards** @paulrickards@mastodon.social · May 30, 2023

May 30, 2023

paulrickards @paulrickards@mastodon.social

After making some really sketchy repository changes and doing an incantation, I got some X11 sources installed and Mini VMac actually compiled without issue!

And look! It’s speaking AppleTalk (UDP) on my network!! Hahaha this is so weird to me. Should I print something to my AppleTalk ImageWriter II from my handheld?

A Pocket Chip handheld showing System 7 Chooser. On the left AppleTalk ImageWriter II driver is selected and on the right my networked printer shows in the list!

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple

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**paulrickards** @paulrickards@mastodon.social · May 29, 2023

May 29, 2023

paulrickards @paulrickards@mastodon.social

Now I’ll know which #ImageWriterII has the #LocalTalk card installed. #LiveLaughLocalTalk

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