JDW, thanks for checking it out. If anyone will thoroughly vet the details it will be you. Also thanks for posting all those links. As you can imagine I have seen all of those pages, articles and documents before and personally find them historically fascinating, however, they don't shed a lot of light on actually using MacServe. In fact I am shocked at the paucity of information which exists on both it and TOPS on the web. http://www.vintagemacworld.com/pu-manual.html#macserve provides the most helpful information on the web, which I do link to on my site: in fact I recommend it as required reading before doing anything with the MacServe software. My other sources are of course the actual MacServe manual as well as several early Mac books including the original "Macintosh Bible" by Arthur Naiman from 1986, excerpts from all of which I will eventually post on my site.
As for XL/Serve, make sure you do not try to obtain a copy for purposes of partitioning a drive. It will only partition a Lisa 2/Macintosh XL's Widget or Profile drive. My interest in XL/Serve is solely in finding a copy of version 1.0 to confirm whether it works on a 128K (as a compatible MacServe AppleTalk client) as represented in various old marketing brochures from early 1985 I have obtained. Finding a copy is highly unlikely since a bug in MacWorks 2.0 forced users to upgrade to XL/Serve v.1.1 in order to use the internal hard disk. Because the original disk contained an embedded serial number, it had to be upgraded, thus overwriting v.1.0
Thanks for your constructive criticism of my site. As I mention several times therein, it is a work in progress and takes a significant amount of time to develop. I indicate on the site that links and pictures will eventually be added for everything. We all have to have primary goals and mine is getting the info out there, detailing it later as I have time to research the links and document it with proper footnotes and references, particularly if I use images that are not mine. I'm using iWeb which doesn't do everything I'd like either so I have to work around its limitations as well as I implement other aspects of the site. As you point out with your response to this post regarding XL/Serve links you found, "MFSLives" and most other references on mine and other websites can easily be found on the web by Googling for now, or they can just ask as you did. As for direct linking to my pages, eventually I will implement that. Command-clicking has been for some time now the common accepted method in most Mac browsers for opening a direct link. I use it all the time because most websites are masked or have embedded links I want the source for. Though try using ctrl-click to see a list of clickable options, including bookmarking and open in another window, the site is fully navigable that way. On my site you can ctrl or Apple-click on the splash screen and open the site, directly bypassing the masking, if you like it dirty.
Also, thanks for your info about AppleTalk networking with OS X. I'm certain the forum will appreciate it. However, I am only concerned on my site exclusively with pre-System 6, stand-alone Mac networking with OS X (without using an intermediary Mac as a bridge), for which there are no easy solutions for file transfers (and none for the 128K). Again http://www.vintagemacworld.com/netprimer.html does a fantastic job of detailing most options, including links to http://www.Mac512.com and others which cover almost all options from System 6 through 9 with vintage Macs.
As for XL/Serve, make sure you do not try to obtain a copy for purposes of partitioning a drive. It will only partition a Lisa 2/Macintosh XL's Widget or Profile drive. My interest in XL/Serve is solely in finding a copy of version 1.0 to confirm whether it works on a 128K (as a compatible MacServe AppleTalk client) as represented in various old marketing brochures from early 1985 I have obtained. Finding a copy is highly unlikely since a bug in MacWorks 2.0 forced users to upgrade to XL/Serve v.1.1 in order to use the internal hard disk. Because the original disk contained an embedded serial number, it had to be upgraded, thus overwriting v.1.0
Thanks for your constructive criticism of my site. As I mention several times therein, it is a work in progress and takes a significant amount of time to develop. I indicate on the site that links and pictures will eventually be added for everything. We all have to have primary goals and mine is getting the info out there, detailing it later as I have time to research the links and document it with proper footnotes and references, particularly if I use images that are not mine. I'm using iWeb which doesn't do everything I'd like either so I have to work around its limitations as well as I implement other aspects of the site. As you point out with your response to this post regarding XL/Serve links you found, "MFSLives" and most other references on mine and other websites can easily be found on the web by Googling for now, or they can just ask as you did. As for direct linking to my pages, eventually I will implement that. Command-clicking has been for some time now the common accepted method in most Mac browsers for opening a direct link. I use it all the time because most websites are masked or have embedded links I want the source for. Though try using ctrl-click to see a list of clickable options, including bookmarking and open in another window, the site is fully navigable that way. On my site you can ctrl or Apple-click on the splash screen and open the site, directly bypassing the masking, if you like it dirty.
Also, thanks for your info about AppleTalk networking with OS X. I'm certain the forum will appreciate it. However, I am only concerned on my site exclusively with pre-System 6, stand-alone Mac networking with OS X (without using an intermediary Mac as a bridge), for which there are no easy solutions for file transfers (and none for the 128K). Again http://www.vintagemacworld.com/netprimer.html does a fantastic job of detailing most options, including links to http://www.Mac512.com and others which cover almost all options from System 6 through 9 with vintage Macs.