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To: Kenneth R Miller who wrote (18707)	9/30/1998 7:12:00 AM
From: Linda Kaplan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

What is the problem with regard to getting the streaming quotes from Datek on the iMac, please? And what is road runner? Thanks. Linda

To: Kenneth R Miller who wrote (18707)	9/30/1998 9:27:00 AM
From: Mark Palmberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

I was just looking at a Mac catalog this past weekend and was very surprised at the amount of hardware and software available for the iMac. I didn't pay much attention to networking stuff, but there was some there. And this new iPort certainly looks promising, especially for only $70 or so (I think that was the price). I'd also like to add my $.02 on "the Alomex situation." There are a lot of posts to this thread that I just skim very quickly anymore, but anything by Eric, Ian, Scott, Alomex, or Adam (as secretive as he is) is a must-read in my opinion. Hell, if nothing else you have to admire the guy for his stick-to-itiveness. I used to group Al and Andon in the same class, but now it's clear to me that that was an egregious error in judgement. And Ken, don't buy a minitower until they come out with the El Capitan cases; you'll kick yourself if you don't wait! Mark

To: Kenneth R Miller who wrote (18707)	9/30/1998 11:45:00 AM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

Mr. Miller, I have an old Mac also, but when I went out and bought an iMac it fit right in with everything, no problem. That is why I was somewhat taken aback by your comments. Is the problem that you are not using ethernet? I had already started using ethernet before getting the iMac, so setting up consisted of plugging in and turning on. HerbVic __________ I own aapl off and on and finally bought the iMac.. a great consumer appliance, but not recomended if you want to network, print, fileshare with your old Mac.. in short. It's a great machine for surfing the web, but if you see something you want to print.. it gets a bit more complicated.

To: Kenneth R Miller who wrote (18707)	9/30/1998 11:55:00 PM
From: JP Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

>To this thread.. I own aapl off and on and finally bought the iMac.. a great consumer appliance, but not recomended if you want to network, print, fileshare with your old Mac.. < I suppose your old Mac is on a LocalTalk network, since the iMac comes with built-in Ethernet and you wouldn't be having a problem if you were on an Ethernet network. You might want to consider upgrading your network to Ethernet, which is much faster and not very expensive to do these days. If your old Mac can't accept an Ethernet adapter or your old LocalTalk printer does not have Ehternet capability, you can still use LocalTalk and connect to your (new) Ethernet network via a LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge (I think that's what it's called). It's slow, but it works. That's the technique I was using when we switched over to Ethernet and still had to use an old Powerbook and a LaswerWriter NT. BTW, the bridges we used were from FOCUS (EtherLAN SC-T to connect a LocalTalk Mac to Ethernet, and EtherLAN Print to connect a LocalTalk printer to the Ethernet network). Having said all of that, the only thing that's keeping me from buying an iMac at this time is that I would not be able to use the many SCSI devices (external drives, mostly) that we currently have. I wonder if anyone is coming out with a SCSI-to-USB adapter anytime soon. Good luck. Winston