What is this software

[LaPorta]

Never heard of this…what is this for?

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Vintage Macintosh software.. Apple Inter-Poll Network Administrator's Utility Version 1.0.1 in original box with software, manuals and inserts....Sealed/Unopened...Items are NOS, New old stock, inventory from a dealer service center. Many items are new in the package..I have many more...

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[finkmac]

Apple Inter•Poll Network Administrator's Utility

Networking utility from Apple Computer.

wiki.preterhuman.net

its good for appletalk mapping

 

[LaPorta]

Anyone use it?

 

[robin-fo]

Me

 

[Mk.558]

A similar but slightly less capable tool is CheckNET, a small tool that comes on a Farallon EN installer disk. Here's Inter-Poll just after startup, with the search network dialog that first pops up.



In the background below you can see Inter-Poll with the network view (background), System Information window and ... let's call it a self-query that told me this Mac mini G4 is actually a 512Ke. Foreground lower left is CheckNET with a system information dialog that you can get by double-clicking a machine entry. This is because it pulls information via the Responder extension, which communicates information about the host machine via the System Information Protocol.



The only people who would use this kind of thing are network administrators who manage multiple zones of PCs and technical people today working on stuff like Netatalk. Newer machines like this OS 9 box don't respond to SIP requests -- I wouldn't know where the cut off was. Aside from novelty or collector value, there's no reason to bid on that thing.

 

[LaPorta]

That’s really neat…I just never heard of this.

 

[Mk.558]

...yeah, there's not much to really do with it though.

 

[robin-fo]

Newer machines like this OS 9 box don't respond to SIP requests

This is something which surprised me on my iMac G4 as well.. Because Mac OS X supports it again (I don‘t remember if I have ever tested it, at least it‘s in present the source code). Fun fact: You can install the Responder extension from System 6 in Mac OS 9