Silverwand Software Collection website launch

Having recently lost yet another site where I hosted some of my materials I have decided it is time to launch a Google sites website of my own to serve as a single place to collect all of my freely distributed computer related work. I will not remove my software from sites where I have uploaded it in the past, but I think providing a single place for new content is a good approach going forward.

Over the next few weeks I will fill in the site, but the core structure is already set up at https://sites.google.com/view/silverwandsoftware/

Update to Setting up My Home AppleTalk Network

Look Ma, No Wires!

I described setting up  my home AppleTalk network to connect my vintage IIGS, Power Macintosh 5400, and Macintosh G3 B&W to my more modern network of Mac Minis and an Apple Airport Extreme Router in this blog post from May. At that time I used an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station as an Ethernet hub and connected a Mac Mini, my G3, and the Power Mac 5400 to it via Ethernet cables as depicted in this diagram.

May version of my Network using Ethernet cabling to a hub

While this functions well and allows my IIGS to see the G3 it did rely on an extra Ethernet hub and Ethernet cables for the 3 devices connected to the hub.  I decided that I could eliminate connecting things to a single hub by using two Airport Express routers for the G3 and PowerMac 5400. With the routers connected to those two computers via Ethernet cables I have more freedom in positioning the computers.  The only devices tethered together by wiring are the IIGS and the PowerMac 5400 which sit side by side on the same desk. The network now looks like this.

July version of my Network using WiFi