COPS LocalTalk PC Board

COPS is the only current manufacturer of LocaTalk boards. They OEM to Farallon and others.

COPS now has NDIS and TCP/IP for LT (using Win95 stack, you can bind TCP/IP to LT).

COPS is quite happy to share information with developers. In particular, they can provide all specs for LAP interface, downloadable firmware, DDP or any level of the stack.

Currently, COPS is working on LocalTalk directly to POTS for high speed internet access. They have developed a Dats/Voice filter that combines both over a single pair. BTB, this will allow true "phone net" in a home, using only the inner pair and not distrubing the dial-tone, voice etc.

COPS (most employees are from Tangent Technologies, PC MacBridge et al). Board history:

• May 1985, Tangent shipped PC MacBridge (8530, no CPU) Apple PC Card; developed by Apple with drivers and improvemnts by Tangent (65C03 & 8530).
• Radio Shack makes LocalTalk board with on-board transceiver.
• TOPS (Centram then Sitka -Sun) (8530, no CPU).
• Tangent made PC MacBridge ATB II (with Z-80 & 8530).
• Tangent folds.
• DayStar acquired and made ATB II & MCA (MicroChannel).
• Dayna acquired and made ATB II then their own big card with hopes of higher speed).
• Apple gives LocalTalk market to Farallon.
• Dayna made new smaller card with din8.
• Farallon OEMS from Dayna.
• COPS buys all board rights from DayStar.
• COPS buys all board rights from Dayna.
• Apexx makes a Parallel interface, no sw.
• CoActive makes a Parallel interace with lousy SW.
• CoActive folds.
• Anam introduces PCMCIA LocalTalk, never makes more than test batch, no sw.