Thanks -- It's nice knowing I can give back to the vintage mac community. According to some, I might be able to make RS-422 work like RS-232 which would work nicely in my arduino, but I'm not sure its literally that easy. Anybody else have any ideas on that?
Once I get that part worked out, the fun part will be making the glue that is between the ethernet side and the localtalk side.
And another question is -- should I just go ahead and make this more compatible with the common phonenet boxes and just figure out how *they* work while i'm in there (since I dont actually have a serial cable)...or should I just stick with regular ol' localtalk?
Actually thinking about it, I might incorporate Zigbee into the mix too, because whats even better than having a wireless localtalk network is having a bridged and wireless localtalk network --- then you'd just need a "base station" and just a converter on each machine.
Once I get that part worked out, the fun part will be making the glue that is between the ethernet side and the localtalk side.
And another question is -- should I just go ahead and make this more compatible with the common phonenet boxes and just figure out how *they* work while i'm in there (since I dont actually have a serial cable)...or should I just stick with regular ol' localtalk?
Actually thinking about it, I might incorporate Zigbee into the mix too, because whats even better than having a wireless localtalk network is having a bridged and wireless localtalk network --- then you'd just need a "base station" and just a converter on each machine.