Any chance of getting a scan of that manual?I got hold, finally, of a Cayman GatorBox CS, with its manuals and software (in a rather fetching binder).
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You will often find this listed in lists of "LocalTalk bridges", along with things like the little AsantéTalk bridges, but this is a much more powerful device than that. First, it's a full AppleTalk router with an ethernet port and a LocalTalk port. This means that unlike, say, the AsantéTalk, this will actually work on networks with other AppleTalk routers. It will also act as a MacIP gateway, and do the same job of de-encapsulation for IPX and DECnet.
So far, so router-y. But this also has a couple of applications (if you paid for them!) specifically to bridge Macs to UNIX networks. It will, for starters, proxy between UNIX lpr printing and AppleTalk printing, making lpr PostScript printers turn up as LaserWriters. It will also, more interestingly, proxy NFS servers to AppleShare!
The one I have has both printing and share bridging preinstalled, but even if you got one that hadn't, netopia made the software available for free a little while ago.
One further interesting thing is that the configuration is as Mac-like as they could make it. You do not use a command line tool to configure it: instead, there is a configuration tool that works via the network which provides a rather Finder-like view of the GatorBoxes available to be configured:
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When you double-click on one, you get a hierarchical icon-based view of the configuration:
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And individual leaves in the configuration are configured through suspiciously compact mac screen sized dialog boxes:
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Any chance of getting a scan of that manual?
Well, I haven't posted any conquests for a while. I haven't really had many, but here's part-conquest part-frankenstein-monster. I present: the RA/UXmount Server.
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This really has bits in from all over the MLA: the Quadra and the rackmount chassis both originally came via @joshc (separately); it was overclocked by @jessenator with bits from @Paulie, and it has a ZuluSCSI in it. It is, as its awful name suggests, running A/UX, and getting this to run headless was one of the major reasons I built the VNC server for A/UX. It's running AppleShare Pro, as well, from a copy which was made available by @MrFahrenheit.
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The chassis is a weird thing: to get the machine in you have to take the front off and slide the machine in from the front. This means that the screws that hold the handles on are load-bearing, which I'm sure is fine but still makes me a bit nervous.
I don't have rack space to mount this up permanently for the moment, so for the moment it will go in the rack shaped pile instead...
I'm happy to see this has been repurposed and will get some active use.the Quadra and the rackmount chassis both originally came via @joshc (separately);
Interesting to see. Can similar stuff be done with Pace set top boxes, or are they too locked down?
If you want one I'll find out what we still have back home. We used to have a couple... 15 years ago or so.You can certainly do it with the Bush STBs, although with the caveat that they don't have Ethernet, only a modem. But they have a debug Zip drive filesystem left in the ROM, so you can boot off that. Rick Murray has a page on it here: https://heyrick.eu/assembler/resources/bushstb.html - this is basically the same thing as I did with the NC to get it into a desktop, but I needed one more module - can't remember which. Once I've got those modules loaded, I just kickstart off a RISC OS 3.6(?) boot sequence (not universal boot) and the result is more or less functional.
I haven't done it with any later Pace hardware; would like to get some to play with, though.
If you want one I'll find out what we still have back home. We used to have a couple... 15 years ago or so.
I've put in a search requestThat would be very kind if you do have a spare. I'd like to have a poke at it and see what can be done!