Inside AppleTalk Mark-down

[superpete]

I noticed that, while a lot of information for the legacy AppleTalk stack is online thanks to people scanning their own books, it's largely in PDF format so difficult to search. So I spent some cash on tokens to OCR some of the old Inside AppleTalk PDFs with Gemini.

https://github.com/ObsoleteMadness/Inside-AppleTalk/ - which is published to https://obsoletemadness.github.io/Inside-AppleTalk/

Hopefully this will make accessing some of this old documentation a bit easier, and is useful to someone else as well!

 

[slipperygrey]

this is truly helpful, having a properly searchable version of this documentation will be handy when working with AppleTalk code – I will certainly make use of it in the future

we have a similar but different challenge with the Apple Filing Protocol Reference document, which is the authoritative resource for AFP 3.x with diagrams for all request and response packets, and so on; it has both html and pdf versions floating around the internet

last updated in 2012 for Mountain Lion / AFP 3.4 and previously hosted on developer.apple.com, Apple inexplicably took it offline some 10 years ago

we currently rely primarily on the Wayback Machine copy, which is not indexed by search engines, slow, and rate limited

the document is absolutely mandatory for doing any development of AFP applications, so an alternative mirror that's more accessible would be amazing

 

[superpete]

I just saw that one last night! Even just mirroring that from Wayback would be a useful endeavour. I'll add them today.