Adding a network and/or CD-ROM to a 1200

[Cymric]

Of late, I find myself wondering whether it wouldn't be nice to code some stuff for the Amiga (OS3, not 4) again. My c0|)1|\|g 5|<111z have improved considerably over the years, so the results could be quite interesting . In any case, I would need to buy me a small system---a 1200 with a 68040 should do fine. No problem there. However, software either comes on CD, or via a network, and if memory serves me, hooking up a CD-ROM drive to a 1200 is not particularly easy. As for the network option, I'm not looking forward to using the serial port with its measly 11 kB/s transfer speed. I would prefer the machine to use TCP/IP over UTP cables.

Can some kind guru provide me with some information as to what the best course of action would be?

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Cymric wrote:

Can some kind guru provide me with some information as to what the best course of action would be?

I'm not a guru but I'd suggest getting a cheap PCMCIA card and installing some TCP/IP stack. Cnet.device supports many cards (check compatibility list from the archive) and there is a driver for 3com cards as well (which I'm currently using). Both can be found from aminet. For more details I'd suggest searching this forum because this topic has been covered quite a few times before..