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Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-01-08 18:27:20
Woo! $5 each. Boxed copy of Stuffit Deluxe for System 7 (very handy), and a Sonic Systems microPrint/microBridge TCP/IP ethernet to AppleTalk bridge. 😀
I also found shrink wrapped software for the Caiman Gatorbox and the Kinetics FastPath Bridge which got me scrounging around for the two hardware boxes, but I couldn't find them. 🙁 But my efforts turned up the Sonic Systems box, so I lucked out. 🙂
Anyone have pictures of the Gatorbox and/or the FastPath Bridge? I'm thinking of going back down there Monday to rummage again, see if I can't find them. I don't know what they look like.
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Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2011-01-08 19:04:05
I have a Shiva FastPath. It's a big metal box with a purple front. Hard to miss.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-01-08 23:35:26
Did the Shiva version look different from the Kinetic version?
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2011-01-09 03:18:09
shrink wrapped software for the Caiman {sic} Gatorbox and the Kinetics FastPath Bridge Dude, please tell me you bought that software ... 🙁
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-01-09 14:56:10
No, I didn't, but I can grab it Monday. Did you want copies?
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Posted by: CJ_Miller on 2011-01-10 01:04:38
D00d... sounds like you hit the ultra-LocalTalk score! Very cool. I wish I had stores around here with such old tech to rummage through.
Most of the FastPath boxes look pretty much the same, metal box with purplish-red front. And a few different options for ethernet connections on back. There was a rack version also which looked different.
I don't have pictures of FastPath or Gatorbox but I am sure you can see them in a Google image search.
If you can archive that software for old Mac heads we would be grateful, but congrats on your find regardless.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-01-10 07:48:35
I'll grab the software after work today and take another look through the piles o' crap. Forgot about Google image search. I think I know what I'm looking for. I was looking through all the rackmount equipment, I didn't realize they were so small. There are other smaller boxes filled miscellaneous modems, switches, and routers.
I also found a new in box "Home Net" switch. It had RJ-11 ports and a RJ-45 uplink. The manual was very scant. Advertised "1 Mbps Home Net" switch. I'm gonna look on Google, see if I can't find any info. I'm hoping it does MacIP or something, or at the very least, if I can use it as an AppleTalk switch. That'd be awesome.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-01-10 16:13:15
OK, got the software. It says "GatorPrint" on the side and back with "Seamless UNIX-to-AppleTalk printing for the GatorBox." On the front it says, "GatorSoftware for the GatorStar GX" with "AppleTalk and TCP/IP Routing" and "Macintosh/UNIX Printer." Opening it up says version 2.2 of the software.
I also got the Kinetics FastPath software, which is actually a binder. Inside is a FastPath 4 Gateway installation guide, Revision A, as well as a Kinetics LAN Ranger User Guide, Revision B. There are two packets of software, one says REV: A and the other REV: C. I haven't opened them, they're the old paper User License Agreement packets.
If anyone would like copies of the software, I'll make them available. I also have the microBridge TCP/IP software from the box I got on Saturday.
On top of this, I came across a two port DVI/USB KVM switch. 😀 Looked new. $7 for the whole lot. 🙂
Unfortunately a second rummage the equipment did not turn up the boxes. It is possible it's still in the storage area being processed. I'll check again in a few weeks, or I'll ask the owner if he comes by it.
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Posted by: mactjaap on 2011-01-12 10:56:43
I would realy like to have copy's (images) of the software you have found. Sometimes software is even more rare then the devices!
That's what I always liked about the Mac Driver Museum.
I once had the first user contribution.....
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-01-12 14:56:43
I'll make some images available after I get home.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-01-12 16:26:06
Software is now up at:
http://www.wreckcenter.com/68k/AppleTalk/
The Cayman disk was labeled Disk #2. So I'm guessing there's a second box with Disk #1. I'll do another rummage this Friday and see if I can't find it. Files are in DiskCopy 4.2 format for them classic Macs.
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