Description: Apple II Systems: How to Identify them With Inter-Poll
Header: Apple II Systems: How to Identify them With Inter-Poll


 This article last reviewed: 28 April 1989

 This article describes what to do, so that Inter*Poll can identify an Apple
 IIe or Apple IIGS connected to a network.  There are some very specific
 criteria that must be met:

 - The Apple IIGS must have Built-in AppleTalk selected in the Control Panel.

 - The Apple IIGS must have the proper port set to "Your Card".

 - An Apple IIe with the Workstation Card must be past the Password screen.

 The steps for each computer are given below.


 Apple IIGS
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 For an Apple IIGS to appear in the "Device List" window of Inter*Poll,
 these steps must be followed:

 1) Select "Built-in AppleTalk" from the Control Panel.  At the same time,
   set the port that the network is connected to, generally the Printer
   port, to "Your Card".

 2) Shut down and restart the system.

 3) Run Inter*Poll on the Macintosh, or have it running and checking the
   network.

 The Apple IIGS should show up in the Device List window.

 Note: Responder is built into the AppleTalk portion of the software for the
 Apple IIGS.


 Apple IIe
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 1) Install the Apple II Workstation Card in slot 7 of the Apple IIe and
   connect the LocalTalk port to the network.

 2) Start up the system and log on to a ProDOS server on the network.

 Once the system goes past the Password screen, the device shows up in the
 Device List window of Inter*Poll.

 To see if there was something unique about this setup procedure, we
 considered the Macintosh in a similar environment.  If the system is
 powered up, but no software is loaded (that is, the Macintosh screen shows
 the disk with a flashing question mark in the middle of the disk), the
 system is not identifiable from Inter*Poll.  At this point, there is no
 AppleTalk software to respond to the Inter*Poll request.  The same is true
 for an Apple II.
 Copyright 1989 Apple Computer, Inc.
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