Dang! Somebody actually used P-Shooters? I figured that was the most obscure gadget I ever worked on. P-Con never got beyond the 2 guys in a garage stage. Perhaps the "CEO" licensed the design to some Australian firm.
My personal record for LocalTalk was 10,000 ft of cat 2 twisted pair. We had one guy who had a single pair with a break in it under a freeway that ran through his campus. He used P-Shooters to recover the mangled data and tie the two sides of the campus together. Musta been pretty desperate. Another guy claimed to run LocalTalk from house to barn over a couple of strands of barbed wire fence. 8-o A dozen or two Macs doing occasional server access on a LocalTalk segment was pretty tolerable. For users doing publishing or multimedia work, 4 users was preferable.
My personal record for LocalTalk was 10,000 ft of cat 2 twisted pair. We had one guy who had a single pair with a break in it under a freeway that ran through his campus. He used P-Shooters to recover the mangled data and tie the two sides of the campus together. Musta been pretty desperate. Another guy claimed to run LocalTalk from house to barn over a couple of strands of barbed wire fence. 8-o A dozen or two Macs doing occasional server access on a LocalTalk segment was pretty tolerable. For users doing publishing or multimedia work, 4 users was preferable.