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You have an iMac, you have a PowerBook, and you have a few ways
to connect them - but none of them seem fast enough or cheap
enough, so you want more. Never fear, there's plenty more was to
connect Macs.
The first way you can connect Macs used to cost 7 - 15 dollars
per computer, but with the iMac, the price gets jacked up. This
solution is called PhoneNet. As you can guess from its name, it
uses phone line to connect the two or more Macs. First, you will
need PhoneNet adapters for each serial Mac, like your PowerBook.
Their serial number is: PN308P. They go for about US$10. As always,
eBay has a nice variety of these pieces pretty cheap. The reason
this way of connection is because you need a special converter
called the iPrint, they are all available from Farallon. Then to
connect them wire them with a cheap phone line, which you can buy
from any Radio Shack or dollar store.
Your other option is a free one, but it only works with the
original Bondi iMacs. If you look to your left when you are at your
keyboard, you will see a little redish-black half circle. This
weird color half circle is called the infrared or IrDA port. And if
you have a G3 PowerBook, you can just beam files, because the G3
PowerBook has IrDA, too. If you sit at the keyboard, the IrDA port
on this Mac is on the back, left-hand side. Just point the two Macs
at each other and fire up the infrared control panel and beam just
like you're Scotty. You can also use this method to connect between
two Bondi iMacs and two G3 PowerBooks.
So, now that we've discovered networking, you really have no
need to have a floppy drive now!
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