micheledipaola
Well-known member
Hi,
I am looking for information about the external dongle sold with the Apple II Workstation Card.
The card, actually working only on enhanced IIe with 128k+ , was a late addition to the Apple II family to add a LocalTalk port and a printer port, both with round miniDIN connectors, to Apple IIe computers. The manuals and software are preserved, and they show how the card is adding AppleTalk and AppleShare capabilities to the Apple II family.
The miniDIN connectors are enclosed in an external box (see pic) :
and the box is then connected to two separate connectors on the card's end.
I found pictures of a case-less dongle too:
But I am not able to find more detailed information, schematics etc about these dongles.
As it often happens, these cards resurface here and there, but always without the connectors' dongles, so I wonder if and how difficult it could be to re-create them.
Has anybody tried something similar already, or could you maybe provide more information about the pinout / board and how to build one from scratch?
Thanks in advance!
I am looking for information about the external dongle sold with the Apple II Workstation Card.
The card, actually working only on enhanced IIe with 128k+ , was a late addition to the Apple II family to add a LocalTalk port and a printer port, both with round miniDIN connectors, to Apple IIe computers. The manuals and software are preserved, and they show how the card is adding AppleTalk and AppleShare capabilities to the Apple II family.
The miniDIN connectors are enclosed in an external box (see pic) :
and the box is then connected to two separate connectors on the card's end.
I found pictures of a case-less dongle too:
But I am not able to find more detailed information, schematics etc about these dongles.
As it often happens, these cards resurface here and there, but always without the connectors' dongles, so I wonder if and how difficult it could be to re-create them.
Has anybody tried something similar already, or could you maybe provide more information about the pinout / board and how to build one from scratch?
Thanks in advance!