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For the record, transferring 115 MB via Appletalk (those little boxes that plug into the serial ports) is very, very ...

... very ...

... uh ...

... slow.

I figured both Appletalk/localtalk and PPP would run at the maximum speed of the serial port and thus be about equally fast, but I'm starting to wonder whether this would be going faster if I'd gone ahead and set up a PPP server on my LAN for the day.

(And no, I'm not doing this as an exercise in tehno-masochism.)

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LocalTalk.

Dear God.

That's an in-theory 230 kbps network protocol, but we don't live in Theory.

However, any box that old as not to have Ethernet may not be able to drive the serial port reliably at even 115k, so it's probably still faster than PPP would be.

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Probably faster than what PPP would have been ... damn, scary. Fortunately if this works it'll be able to use Ethernet afterwards, at which point I'll hand it back to its owner. (It's a Powerbook with OS 7.mumble on it, and I'm copying OS 8.5 to it so that it'll be able to use the Ethernet card that's about to be installed.)

But this exercise is giving me second thoughts about trying to attach my Lisa to the network.

One side effect of the project (there are several side effects) is that one of my Macs that ate its boot drive will be useable again because we had to put a working drive with an operating system on it in that to copy from. A second side effect is that CAT5 is running to three more rooms in my house (exchange of labour), so once I pick up some more RJ45 connectifiers I'll have working Macs in more than one bedroom.

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